I am new to packaging and I'm trying to package a library that one of my programs uses. The library is called Plytapus and it's used by the PerfectTIN program. You can find source code for both of them on my GitHub site, https://github.com/phma/, and on the PerfectTIN site, http://bezitopo.org/perfecttin/download.html . The source packages are on https://launchpad.net/~phma-a/+archive/ubuntu/testing .
I tried to build the PerfectTIN package after adding plytapus-dev to the build requirements (with only plytapus installed, it built without plytapus) and got a failure. It turned out that the plytapus package is missing the .so file. I edited the files in the debian directory and tried again.
changelog
plytapus (0.6.0-3) focal; urgency=medium
* Remove extra asterisk from plytapus1.install
-- Pierre Abbat <[email protected]> Sun, 20 Dec 2020 14:02:52 -0500
plytapus (0.6.0-2) focal; urgency=medium
* Add cmake as dependency
-- Pierre Abbat <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Nov 2020 03:42:16 -0500
plytapus (0.6.0-1) focal; urgency=medium
* Initial release
-- Pierre Abbat <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Nov 2020 02:18:06 -0500
plytapus1.install
usr/lib/lib*.so.*
usr/lib/lib*.a
control
Source: plytapus
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Pierre Abbat <[email protected]>
Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12), cmake (>= 3.4)
Standards-Version: 4.4.0
Section: libs
Homepage: https://github.com/phma/plytapus
#Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/plytapus
#Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/plytapus.git
Package: plytapus-dev
Section: libdevel
Architecture: any
Multi-Arch: same
Depends: plytapus (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends}
Description: Library for reading and writing PLY files
Plytapus is a C++ library for reading and writing PLY (Stanford polygon)
files.
.
This package provides the header files.
Package: plytapus
Architecture: any
Multi-Arch: same
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
Description: Library for reading and writing PLY files
Plytapus is a C++ library for reading and writing PLY (Stanford polygon)
files.
.
This package provides the shared and static library.
Here is the relevant section of the build log:
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/phma/package/plytapus-0.6.0/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu'
Install the project...
/usr/bin/cmake -P cmake_install.cmake
-- Install configuration: "None"
-- Installing: /home/phma/package/plytapus-0.6.0/debian/tmp/usr/lib/libplytapus.so.0.6.0
-- Installing: /home/phma/package/plytapus-0.6.0/debian/tmp/usr/lib/libplytapus.so
-- Installing: /home/phma/package/plytapus-0.6.0/debian/tmp/usr/lib/libplytapus.a
-- Installing: /home/phma/package/plytapus-0.6.0/debian/tmp/usr/include/plytapus.h
-- Installing: /home/phma/package/plytapus-0.6.0/debian/tmp/usr/include/plytapus/config.h
-- Installing: /home/phma/package/plytapus-0.6.0/debian/tmp/usr/include/plytapus/textio.h
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/phma/package/plytapus-0.6.0/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu'
dh_install
dh_installdocs
dh_installchangelogs
dh_perl
dh_link
dh_strip_nondeterminism
dh_compress
dh_fixperms
dh_missing
dh_missing: usr/lib/libplytapus.so.0.6.0 exists in debian/tmp but is not installed to anywhere
dh_missing: usr/lib/libplytapus.a exists in debian/tmp but is not installed to anywhere
The following debhelper tools have reported what they installed (with files per package)
* dh_install: plytapus (0), plytapus-dev (3)
* dh_installdocs: plytapus (0), plytapus-dev (0)
If the missing files are installed by another tool, please file a bug against it.
When filing the report, if the tool is not part of debhelper itself, please reference the
"Logging helpers and dh_missing" section from the "PROGRAMMING" guide for debhelper (10.6.3+).
(in the debhelper package: /usr/share/doc/debhelper/PROGRAMMING.gz)
Be sure to test with dpkg-buildpackage -A/-B as the results may vary when only a subset is built
For a short-term work-around: Add the files to debian/not-installed
dh_dwz
dh_strip
dh_makeshlibs
dh_shlibdeps
dh_installdeb
dh_gencontrol
dpkg-gencontrol: warning: Depends field of package plytapus: substitution variable ${shlibs:Depends} used, but is not defined
dh_md5sums
dh_builddeb
dpkg-deb: building package 'plytapus-dev' in '../plytapus-dev_0.6.0-3_amd64.deb'.
dpkg-deb: building package 'plytapus' in '../plytapus_0.6.0-3_amd64.deb'.
How can I fix this so that the .so and .a files are in the plytapus package?
