=head1 NAME muttdelay - A muttdelay project =head1 WTF? You may use this project in order to build your own Debian package for your own project. This has been tested with Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze and Debian GNU/Linux Wheezy. Feel free to modify any aspects. This project is just an empty example muttdelay. Follow these steps: =head2 Install required packages Run the following: sudo aptitude install lintian devscripts dpkg-dev make perl Todo: Ensure this are the correct packages. In order to test that I would have to setup a blank Debian system. =head2 Compile the project Go to the to level directory and run make To test run ./bin/muttdelay It should print out the version number of the project. =head2 Create a Debian package Go to the to level directory and run make deb It will create the files like: ../muttdelay_0.0.0.0_all.deb ../muttdelay_0.0.0.0.dsc ../muttdelay_0.0.0.0_amd64.changes ../muttdelay_0.0.0.0.tar.gz It should create a debian package in ../. Check and install it, e.g: lintian --pedantic ../muttdelay_0.0.0.0_all.deb sudo dpkg -i ../muttdelay_0.0.0.0_all.deb Run dpkg -L muttdelay to see whats in there. You can now run /usr/bin/muttdelay or for example man muttdelay =head2 Read the Makefile Read the Makefile in order to understand what's going on. =head1 Customize Now, since you understood everything feel free to customize everything the way you want it. E.g.: Don't use POD for documentation but LaTeX Compile a C program Include a ./lib dir, add it to the 'install' Makefile rule etc etc. You should also consider the following: =head2 Manual page This muttdelay is using POD for creating manual pages. Edit ./docs/muttdelay.pod and run make documentation in order to build ./docs/muttdelay.1. The page will be included in the resulting debian package automatically. You can review the page with man ./docs/muttdelay.1 =head2 Renaming muttdelay into your project name Rename all files which have *muttdelay* included into your own new package name. You can do that with: PROJECTNAME=yourproject find . -name \*muttdelay\* | while read muttdelay; do git mv $muttdelay ${muttdelay/muttdelay/$PROJECTNAME}; done Search all content and rename *muttdelay* into your own new package name. You can do that with: grep -R muttdelay . | grep -v .git | cut -d: -f1 | uniq | xargs sed -i "s/muttdelay/$PROJECTNAME/g" =head2 Updating ./debian Edit the following files accordingly to your new project (e.g. with vim): vim ./debian/{control,copyright,README} =head2 Update changelog Go to the to level directory and run dch -i