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[Bug 1898410] Re: "Packaging New Software" instructions don't work right
This guide should not be using brz.
The fact that it tells you to install an old version of Ubuntu, because
"brz dh_make" is no longer available, is very reader-unfriendly.
If the version control is simply used to diff between the original and
packaged tree, then it should be a lot easier to just copy the original
tree and diff between top level directories?
Is there a non-brz version of this guide available?
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1898410
Title:
"Packaging New Software" instructions don't work right
Status in Ubuntu Packaging Guide:
New
Bug description:
I've been writing software for decades, but I'm new to making binary
packages of it. I use CMake and out-of-source builds; my source code
is in ~/src/foo, my binaries are compiled in ~/build/foo/bar where bar
is the type of build, and so I figured I should create a ~/package/
directory to make packages. So I installed the packages recommended
for building packages and ran this:
phma@puma:~/package$ bzr dh-make mirasol 0.1.0 ~/build/mirasol/cdbg/mirasol-0.1.0-Source.tar.bz2
bzr: ERROR: Either run the command from an existing branch of upstream, or move mirasol aside and a new branch will be created there.
To someone who doesn't know Debian packaging, this error is quite
unclear. The man page of bzr is no help; it doesn't mention the dh-
make command.
I looked at the ~/package directory; it contains the tarball and a
directory mirasol which contains the source code. From the error I got
from running dh_make, I'm guessing that the directory should be named
"mirasol-0.1.0", but bzr created the directory, and I don't know how
to tell it to include the version number.
The prompt in the instructions is just "$". Could you add the
directory to the prompt?
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