No sense in building them by just throwing things toget. Well, or not at all.
People doing this are also doing these things:
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Liw is going to teach us (me and two other female geeks) more about packaging probably next week. Yeah!
I use Debian 100% of the time at home but the only time I’ve ever really looked into this is when trying to install netris on my lady friend’s iBook using fink. The time is nigh.
I stepped through the Debian New Maintainer’s Guide and built a .deb for GNU’s hello world, which was simple enough. So I moved onto attempting to create a package for ZSNES 1.42. Ubuntu’s Hoary and Breezy repositories still only have ZSNES 1.36. Unfortunately, I’ve been unsuccessful at getting any OpenGL modes working in 1.42, and lintian is still reporting one error and a couple warnings when it checks my .deb.
dissecting dh-make-perl output is a good way to learn and contribute at the same time.



