[New project] Debian package creator (feature request)

[leibowitz]

Here is a tool to create deb packages easily. It lacks thousand of features, so to have what you need in it rapidly please tell me what you want the most in the Poll. If you want something that is not in it, feel free to propose a new one in this thread.

A screencast of an early version (0.2) if you want to see it in action.
http://boby.joe.free.fr/dev/debcreator-0.2.ogg

Update (19 July 07):
Screenshots available at:
http://boby.joe.free.fr/dev/debcreator/img/

Last version: 0.3.9.1, Download it at
http://www.gnomefiles.org/download.p...9.1-1_i386.deb

You can now build packages from both archives and unpacked source directories.
Most of the default filed in the control file are editable from the GUI.

Please test this with simple applications and report any problem you have. Please also attach a link to the archive you tried to build with this if it fails.

And please provide all the information you can on your system (distribution, version of libs, version of tools) if you experience any crash on start-up.


Note: this tool can only build software with at least a Makefile or a configure script that will generate the Makefile. It provides best result with GNU packaged software. You can recognize them because the top source directory is often called in the standard format <softwarename>-<version>.tar.gz (or bz2).

[Fabioamd87]

nice app I'll try it

my vote: Package from archive.tar

[Kelimion]

Interesting project, Leibowitz. I'll be sure and give it a whirl sometime this week and report any feedback I may have.

Nice of you to link here from the source package thread, by the looks both projects have lots of potential, even more so if they integrate well.

[leibowitz]

Kelimion you are right. We will learn from both other, I'm sure.

That's why I'm keeping an eye at your project. And I will probably contribute to it.

[leibowitz]

The first message has been updated with the new release.

Feel free to comment/ask features/test it/do what you want with it.

[gurpartap]

Originally Posted by leibowitz The first message has been updated with the new release. Feel free to comment/ask features/test it/do what you want with it.

hello leibowitz

it looks cool enough for most of the basic application installlations! but my first try failed with a "Failed" error, with the progress bar at approximately 50%. Could not find any related information(except this page, and gnomefiles.org)) or any documentation on this, to troubleshoot.

What could possibly be the problem?

[gurpartap]

Originally Posted by gurpartap hello leibowitz it looks cool enough for most of the basic application installlations! but my first try failed with a "Failed" error, with the progress bar at approximately 50%. Could not find any related information(except this page, and gnomefiles.org)) or any documentation on this, to troubleshoot. What could possibly be the problem?

well, the terminal hints at something and guess now it makes sense what more is needed

[gurpartap]

You need to change line 407 and 409 in debcreator_dhmake from:

/usr/bin/bzip2

to:

/bin/bzip2

/usr/bin/bzip2 isn't the correct path actually. tested to work for tar.bz2 archives after the fix

[Mickeysofine1972]

Lol!

Nice to see I'm not the only one that thinks this is a great idea!

I tried to start a similar project a few months ago but got shot down in flames so I gave up . (http://ubuntu-utils.wikispaces.com)

The Python code is still there if there is anything you might like to take from it, (doubt it though as your project seems far more advanced than mine ever did lol)

WTG dude keep up the good work. I cant help out at the moment unfortunately as I'm involved with the iTeam game project but I dont mind helping by testing.

Mike

[leibowitz]

gurpartap: thanks a lot.

I changed the way it finds bzip2/gzip/822-date tools. Also there was some bugs with dash in feisty.

The first post has been updated to 0.3.9.1.