2009/10/27 peter clarke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peterslistening@gmail.com">peterslistening@gmail.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I have built a little audio-related application - it's a vocabulary<br>
trainer for people learning a foreign language. I am thinking about<br>
making it publicly available, maybe through sourceforge or similar...<br>
but I don't know how to go about packaging it into an rpm or Debian<br>
package for the end user. It's a python script with various data<br>
files and dependencies such as ecasound.<br>
<br>
Any tips on learning how to build packages? Thanks for any advice you can give.<br>
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Peter Clarke<br></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I honestly think upstream developers shouldn't bother themselves - it's what distros are for. You should just put up one source tarball and a binary tarball (with runtime dependencies _documented_, not included, which someone can download and run from within the directory).</div>
<div><br></div><div>But..if you really want to: <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging</a></div></div>