Re: packaging help?

[Jeremy DS Volkening <volkening mailshack com>]

On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 17:25 -0700, Brian Manning wrote:
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Jeremy DS Volkening
> <volkening mailshack com> wrote:
> > I guess I was hoping someone might say, "Hey, what you want is this
> > book/howto/tutorial called "Packaging Perl Applications for the GNOME
> > Desktop" or something equally to the point. I've since decided that I'm
> > just being lazy, and that I really need to get into the nitty gritty of
> > Makefiles and the GNOME specifications to do what I want to do in the
> > "right" way. Thanks to everyone for the advice.
>
> "Hey, what you may want to do is find an existing Gtk2-Perl app Debian
> package and use it as an example for your package's layout".
>
> apt-cache rdepends libgtk2-perl gave me a nice list of packages that
> depend on libgtk2-perl. I can give you a few suggestions from that
> list:
>
> tinyca
> greenwich
> podbrowser
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian

Thanks - I've already done this with about half a dozen apps (including
podbrowser) I found through web searches and other responses, but that
command is certainly a good way to find more. Although everyone seems to
go about it a bit differently, seeing what others have done has
definitely helped out.

Jeremy