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Re: Sponsor for a bootstrapping Java++ compiler

On Wednesday 30 April 2003 10:11, Jeremy Lainé wrote:
> > AFAIK, this is not OK. Though I used to do it myself too. The
> > correct way, I believe is to make a tar.gz file, like the one which
> > is online, and build the Debian package from that.
>
> To achieve this I use the "deb-makepkg" script below. You need to
> adjust the BUILDIR to wherever you build your Debian packages. Next
> you cd to your working copy of your package, and type :
> deb-makepkg <package> <version>
>
> What this does:
> * "make dist" to build the .tar.gz then renames it to
> package_version.orig.tar.gz
> * extracts the tar.gz
> * scans debian/CVS to know what files are actually part of the CVS
> module (except .cvsignore files) and copies these files to debian/ in
> the directory where the .tar.gz was extracted
> * runs dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

Right. I do a similar things for Jmol, see:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/jmol/Jmol/packaging/debian/Makefile?rev=1.11&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
with the setup target.

Egon
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