Troubleshooting Package Creation for PPA

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So I tried following the steps here to create a package to upload to my PPA. I ran dh_make and edited the files. However, when my package gets generated by debuild, none of the programs files show up in the package.

Here is the output of debuild:

…
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of directory share
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of directory share/pixmaps
…

Here is what the filesystem looks like:

build_root
    – packagename_1.2.orig.tar.gz
    – packagename-1.2
         – debian
             – control
             …

The application is written in Python, if that means anything.

Edit:

Here is what the packagename_1.2.orig.tar.gz looks like:

packagename-1.2
     – src
         – somefile.py
         – someotherfilefile.py
     – images
         – test.png

Unfortunately, I'm still struggling…

Here is my debian/rules file:

#!/usr/bin/make -f
# -*- makefile -*-

# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
#export DH_VERBOSE=1

%:
    dh  $@

override_dh_auto_build:

override_dh_auto_install:

…and here is my package.install file:

src/myapp.server /usr/lib/bonobo/servers
src/myapp /usr/lib/myapp
images/test.png /usr/share/test

Best Answer

You don't seem to use any build system, I think that's why you're not getting any files in your package. Have you tried looking at changing your debian/rules file?

It should be pretty easy to do if you simply put a mypackage.install file in debian/ and use the format specified in man dh_install. With appropriate substitutions, that file could look like this:

src/somefile.py usr/share/mypackage/
src/someotherfile.py usr/share/mypackage
bin/myexecutable usr/bin
image/test.png usr/share/icons/some/icon/dir/

If you do use a build system, override the dh_auto_* targets as explain in the link above (Python Packaging Guide) so that you're installing only these files and the build system (e.g distutils) doesn't interfere with files in your package.

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