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Debian packaging is hard. I learned to create simple packages from http://faceted.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/howto-build-a-trivial-debian-package-with-dh_make/
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| NAME=hello-world | |
| VERSION=0.1 | |
| # Standard setup | |
| mkdir $NAME-$VERSION | |
| cd $NAME-$VERSION | |
| dh_make --createorig --indep --copyright gpl2 --yes | |
| find debian -type f -not -regex 'debian/\(changelog\|compat\|rules\|control\|copyright\)' -exec rm {} \; | |
| echo "./debian/source/* ./" > debian/$NAME.install | |
| # You should check the copyright file and maybe the changelog at this point. | |
| # Create custom stuff | |
| mkdir -p debian/source/bin | |
| echo echo Hello World > debian/source/bin/hello | |
| chmod +x debian/source/bin/hello | |
| # There's a lot of confusion about how to add symbolic links to deb packages. This is how you do it... | |
| echo bin/hello bin/helloworld > debian/$NAME.links | |
| # Standard finish | |
| dpkg-buildpackage -uc -tc -rfakeroot | |
| # Hey look what I made! | |
| dpkg --contents ../${NAME}_$VERSION*.deb |
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Google is littered with examples of people wanting to put symbolic links in their packages and being told that it is not possible. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.mentors/56819 I figured out how to do it!