[ale] creating a debian package

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

On 01/19/2010 09:49 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 20:14 -0500, Jim Lynch wrote:
> 
>> Checkinstall does a great job of that.  I've used it extensively.
>>
>> http://www.asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
>>
>> That assumes that there is a single command like "make install" that 
>> will do the install.
> 
> That seemed too easy.

Yep.

> Does it use ldd to see what libraries are linked and track down the
> dependencies?  When I do an install on the laptop maybe it will download
> libxmlrpc-c3 ?

Nope.

Until more experienced packagers chime in, you may want to look at parts
of these documents

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete
http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/

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All the best,
Brian Pitts