I use debhelper with python setuptools in order to build my packages. I recently updated the compatibility level 9 to 11 in order to use the systemd t ...

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#main-building-script-debian-rules Document in question ^ I am learning to build debian packa ...

Goal: I want to create a modified Debian source package, namely the official rrdtool package + "some changes". One of these changes is the addition of ...

I have two packages: libsai-A libsai-B Both of these package 'Provides' a virtual package called 'libsai', but libsai-B can 'Replace' (copy o ...

I have followed the tutorial here https://dh-virtualenv.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html#step-2-setup-the-debian-packaging closely and everythin ...

I am trying to get a better understanding of debhelper's dh tool. As I understand it, dh is a frontend for various dh_* helper tools. These helper too ...

I'm building a debian package that installs several config files to different places with other names. For that I wanted to use dh-exec install-rename ...

The manual of gbp tells following: First, create an empty repository: Then, you import the upstream sources, branch off the upstream-branch b ...

Existing source distributions can be debianized easily using dh_make, but I failed to find similar tool for rpm packages. Are there any, or the only w ...

I'm getting myself thoroughly confused how to correctly package my python3 based application. My application uses a Makefile to install stuff to the ...

I am trying to build a debian package with systemd scripts and I don't really understand the best way to do it. My first question is, should I use th ...

I encountered an issue when building debian package. As for the document of the rules file: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dreq.en.ht ...

I'm creating a Debian package using DebHelper, under the latest stable version of Debian. The "debian/control" file comprises these lines: The dep ...

I am struggling with dh to create package for python 3 (and not for python 2). I use setup.py which, when called with python3, builds for python 3. I ...

I was converting some of my packages to use dh from the debhelper package, when I noticed that it doesn't support rerunning targets. For example: ...

In my debian-folder of my debian package I want to add an post-step that removes a directory for example. I think the file *.postrm.debhelper is righ ...

I have a Debian package which has to update some files. These files will exist after a uninstallation of the Debian package. I want to remove them tog ...

A server and and a corresponding client are being built from a single source package: The server needs no special build process. There's simply a p ...

I have a Makefile that starts with and expects make prefix=/usr in case someone wants a non-/opt installation. There's no ./configure (and no need ...

I am trying to package my Python software with stdeb: which works fine. Unfortunately, stdeb adds the variable ${python:Depends} to the debian/con ...