Re: Newbie question 3

[Jaromír Mikeš]

<  > I downloaded source tarball manualy and don't know where to put it.
<  > This source of course not contain any .dsc file.  So I can't run:
<  >
<  > sudo pbuilder build *.dsc
<  >
<  > Any how-to exist which I didn't found?  Thanks for any help to move
<  > forward.
<  
<  Well, you need to 'debianize' it:
<  
<   a. unpack upstream tarball
<   b. create and populate debian/*
<   c. run 'dpkg-buildpackage -S'
<  
<  This would create you an diff.gz and an dsc file that you can give
<  pbuilder. NB: b. is almost always non-trivial, I can only recommend
<  studying the "New Maintainers Guide" for that.
<  
<  Many other sites recommend using dh_make(1) for creating the inital
<  debian/ directory. I tend to not recommend it anymore, at least not
<  before having studied the "New Maintainers Guide", because of the vast
<  amount of spurious clutter it creates for most packages. Better have a
<  look at "simple" source packages for learning how to write a proper
<  debian/rules file.
<  

Thank you ... this  is I need to know :)
Can you also confirm/refuse that "pbuilder create -- distributon sid" is right choice pls?

mira