From: Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists <tpo2@...>
Date: 2007-05-08T14:40:54+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] pallet 1.2.1

On Tue, 8 May 2007, Stephen Touset wrote:

> On Tue, 08 May 2007 01:51:45 +0900, Brian Candler wrote:
>
>> OK, so I'm not entirely clear how Pallet works then.
>>
>> Does it generate "how to" build rules for the native packaging system - e.g.
>> spec files for RPM, whatever the equivalent is for Debian (control.tar.gz)?
>> And then you use the native packaging system to actually create the
>> package?
>
> Yes. And, for debian, that's a whole slew of files in a "debian/"
> directory, plus a self-executing Makefile called "debian/rules". It's
> kind of a PITA, actually. :)

Uhm - as far as I know you only need like - two - of them: debian/control 
and debian/rules. The others are optional in various degrees (such as 
debian/copyright is reasonable if you want to distribute the package, 
isn't it?)
*t

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