Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ethereal debian/ directory

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Frederic Peters wrote:

> Patch to debian/ dir attached.
>  
Checked in

BTW: ethereal_0.10.10-1.diff might not be the best patch name, as I know 
I'm working for Ethereal ;-)

> > BTW: is there any technical reason not to move the debian dir into the 
> > packaging dir, just where the similar rpm dir already is?
> >    
>
> Debian build tools requires debian/ to be in the top-level directory;
> moving it to packaging/ would be inconvenient.
>  
Well, I guessed that's exactly the cause, but hope dies last :-)

Seems to be some room for improvement of the debian packaging tool...


Is it possible to provide some info about how to generate a .deb 
package, or just point to some info how to do it, presumably into the 
README.debian file?

Regards, ULFL