Creating a .deb file

Hi,

Does anyone have any appropriate debian control files so
that I can create a
.deb package for FLAC? I don't want to just compile it and
overwrite in case
it gets automatically overwritten by the Debian package
management tools.

Cheers

Andy

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On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Andy Hawkins wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any appropriate debian control files
so that I can 
> create a .deb package for FLAC? I don't want to just
compile it and 
> overwrite in case it gets automatically overwritten by
the Debian 
> package management tools.

A reasonable way to do this is to do this on a Debian or
Ubuntu system:

First, make sure the package manager believes you have the
required 
dependencies to build flac:

 	$ sudo apt-get build-dep flac

And install the "devscripts" package, which we'll
use to bump the version 
number of your custom package:

 	$ sudo apt-get install devscripts

Then, download your CVS or otherwise fresh flac and put in a
directory 
called flac-fresh/.  Then, do this:

 	$ apt-get source flac

That will download some files; you're only interested in the
flac*.diff.gz 
file.  That patch contains everything you need to make a
Debian package 
out of the flac source.  All you should hopefully need from
it is the 
debian/ directory.

Now, apply it to your flac-fresh directory:

 	$ cd flac-fresh/
 	$ zcat ../flac*.diff.gz | patch -p1

Now you're in the flac-fresh directory; let's increase the
version number 
of this Debian package using dch, the "d"ebian
"ch"angelog editor, telling 
it to "i"ncrement the version.

 	$ dch -i

In the editor that spawns, write some short note or nothing
at all; the 
important thing is that the version number is now higher
than the one 
Debian provides.  Now build the package:

 	$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

Now you should have some .deb files in ../*.deb.

-- Asheesh.

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Hi.

In article <alpine.DEB.0.9999.0709211307540.30976dell.linuxdev.us.dell.com>,
           Asheesh Laroia<asheeshasheesh.org> wrote:


> A reasonable way to do this is to do this on a Debian
or Ubuntu system:

[snip comprehensive instructions]

Thanks a lot for that, I'll have a go at it later.

Andy

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On Sunday 23. September 2007 11:31:07 Andy Hawkins wrote:
> Hi.
>
> In article
> <alpine.DEB.0.9999.0709211307540.30976dell.linuxdev.us.dell.com>,
>
> Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> > A reasonable way to do this is to do this on a
Debian or Ubuntu system:
>
> [snip comprehensive instructions]
>
> Thanks a lot for that, I'll have a go at it later.

Share your package on http://getdeb.net/
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On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 04:59:24PM +0200, Daniel
Aleksandersen wrote:
> Share your package on http://getdeb.net/

Or just wait, like, a day for me to finish the packaging...

Patiently,

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Hi,

In article <20070923182552.GN24611triplehelix.org>,
           Joshua Kwan<joshktriplehelix.org> wrote:
> Or just wait, like, a day for me to finish the
packaging...

I didn't realise someone was actually packaging it up
'properly'. I'd much
rather use an 'official' package than some home brewed one I
made myself!

I used the instructions above, and have got it all installed
correctly, so
thanks to the original reply for the useful info.

I'll look forward to seeing the 'official' package. Will it
be announce
here?

Andy

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On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 04:15:51PM +0000, Andy Hawkins
wrote:
> I didn't realise someone was actually packaging it up
'properly'. I'd much
> rather use an 'official' package than some home brewed
one I made myself!

It's official in the sense that it is now an official Debian
package.
I uploaded it yesterday. You can retrieve it from the
unstable archive
and it should hit the testing archive in a week or so.

> I used the instructions above, and have got it all
installed correctly, so
> thanks to the original reply for the useful info.
> 
> I'll look forward to seeing the 'official' package.
Will it be announce
> here?

It usually happens silently, but since people were making a
fuss about
it, I decided to speak up.

P.S. for ubuntu you'll want to nudge the MOTUs. I don't know
how that
process goes but what they usually do is just rebuild my
source package
against a ubuntu distribution tree.

> Andy

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Hi,

In article <20070925221239.GS24611triplehelix.org>,
           Joshua Kwan<joshktriplehelix.org> wrote:

[snip]

Apologies, but I replied to this directly via e-mail, didn't
realise it had
been sent to the list as well.

Andy



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