Creating Debian Files

The following files are needed in the debian directory.

john@d10cave:~/gui-deb$ tree
.
└── simpqt
    ├── debian
    │   ├── compat
    │   ├── control
    │   ├── copyright
    │   ├── files
    │   ├── manpages
    │   ├── rules
    │   └── source
    │       └── format
    ├── man
    └── src

5 directories, 7 files

You can add them with the file manager or with the following commands.

cd simpqt/debian
touch control compat copyright files manpages rules install source/format
cd ..

changelog

Various Debian maintenance tools recognize your email address and name to use by the shell environment variables $DEBEMAIL and $DEBFULLNAME.

You can add them to the ~/.bashrc file with your favorite text editor. The ~ means your home directory.

DEBEMAIL="your.email.address@example.org"
DEBFULLNAME="Firstname Lastname"
export DEBEMAIL DEBFULLNAME

Or in a terminal.

cat >>~/.bashrc <<EOF
DEBEMAIL="email.address@example.org"
DEBFULLNAME="Firstname Lastname"
export DEBEMAIL DEBFULLNAME
EOF

The terminal should be in the simpqt directory to create the changelog file with the following command.

dch --create

Change the changelog file to match the following.

To save the changes press ctrl x then y then enter.

compat

The compat file simply contains 11

control

The control file has the following as a minimum to satisify lintian.

Source: simpqt
Maintainer: John Thornton <jt@gnipsel.com>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8.0.0)
Standards-Version: 3.9.3
Section: utils
Priority: optional

Package: simpqt
Priority: optional
Architecture: any
Depends: python3 (>=3.6), python3-pyqt5, ${misc:Depends}
Description: simple gui package
 Just displays a Pyqt5 GUI, it's very useful.
 Note the second and additional lines are
 indented with one space.

copyright

The copyright file just needs one line to make lintian happy.

Copyright 2021, CnC Machines LLC

install

The install file is where you specify where to install the files. The PyQt5 .ui file needs to be in the package library along with any imports.

src/simpqt usr/bin
src/simpqt.ui usr/lib/simpqt

manpages

The manpages file contains the location of the man file.

man/simpqt.1

rules

The rules file contains the following as a minimum. Make sure that is a tab in front of dh $@ and not a space.

#!/usr/bin/make -f
%:
        dh $@

format

The source/format file just needs one line.

3.0 (native)