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Debian packaging cheat sheet

(From old notes, circa 2013)

List contents

dpkg --contents PACKAGENAME

Remove package

sudo apt-get --purge remove PACKAGENAME

Include arbitrary files

Step 1: Create /debian/jpwrappa.install file. Each line represents source/destination path, e.g.:

jpwrappa/config.xml  etc/jpwrappa
jpwrappa/profiles/* etc/jpwrappa/profiles/

Do not prepend file paths by any '/' characters!

Step 2: Add destination directories to /debian/dirs, e.g.:

usr/bin
etc/jpwrappa
etc/jpwrappa/profiles

(Actually I'm not even 100% sure if this step is absolutely necessary - please try for yourself!)

Step 3: Add dh_install command to /debian/rules, e.g. like this:

# Build architecture-independent files here.
binary-indep: install
	dh_testdir
	dh_testroot
	dh_installchangelogs
	dh_installdocs
	dh_installexamples
	dh_install
	dh_installman
	dh_link
	dh_compresshttps://twitter.com/#
	dh_fixperms
	dh_installdeb
	dh_gencontrol
	dh_md5sums
	dh_builddeb

(Note: I have no idea about the 'proper' place to put this, but at least it works!).

Sources

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