27 Oct
2009
27 Oct
'09
4:04 a.m.
2009/10/27 peter clarke <peterslistening(a)gmail.com>
I have built a little audio-related application -
it's a vocabulary
trainer for people learning a foreign language. I am thinking about
making it publicly available, maybe through sourceforge or similar...
but I don't know how to go about packaging it into an rpm or Debian
package for the end user. It's a python script with various data
files and dependencies such as ecasound.
Any tips on learning how to build packages? Thanks for any advice you can
give.
Peter Clarke
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).
But..if you really want to:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging