[Distutils] stdeb-0.3 error

[Gerry Reno]

Andrew Straw wrote:
> Gerry Reno wrote:
>   
>> Andrew,  Ok, .deb is building fine using modified stdeb 0.3 on hardy. 
>> I've installed the .deb and it works.
>>
>> I can see that stdeb is using debhelper which I really don't know much
>> about.  So it looks like debhelper or dh_make is generating the
>> control files. What I need is someway that in myapp maybe under a
>> debian/ directory, I can create postinst and prerm files and then
>> stdeb would look for those in the orig tarball and use them if found. 
>> Is this possible?
>>     
> The debian packaging machinery invoked by dpkg-buildpackage will pick up
> any scripts named my-package-name.preinst, my-package-name.postinst,
> my-package-name.prerm, my-package-name.postrm that happen to be in the
> debian/ directory. See
> http://sdn.vlsm.org/share/Debian-Doc/manuals/maint-guide/ch-dother.en.html
> for more info. So you have to modify stdeb to drop the appropriate files
> in there if they're given as a config argument to stdeb. The stdeb
> master branch already creates such a file for housekeeping reasons (see
> commit
> http://github.com/astraw/stdeb/commit/9faaf049a1a7fbd8f5e1fb658248013f208f398c
> where I added this).
>   

I really didn't have to use any stdeb config args or anything.  I just 
created a dir  myapp/debian and put a python-myapp.postinst script file 
in there, ran my bdist_deb command and then installed the .deb and the 
python-myapp.postinst script ran perfectly.  So do I need to be 
concerned with config args to stdeb?  I do see some 
python-myapp.postinst.debhelper etc. scripts in there but I don't know 
if those ran.

Regards,
Gerry