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I am trying to turn Spamdyke 4.3.1 (download link) into Debian package (.deb). This is pretty easy software to build, no crazy dependencies, just libssl-dev so:

apt-get install build-essential devscripts 

                debhelper dh-make libssl-dev

and then once you unpack the sources:

cd spamdyke-4.3.1/spamdyke

./configure --exec_prefix=/usr 

make

and usual

make install

As I am willing to make the Debian package out of this software, I created all the necessary files in debian/ folder and modified its install target in spamdyke/Makefile.in by adding ${DESTDIR}:

install: spamdyke

        cp spamdyke ${DESTDIR}/usr/local/bin/spamdyke-@PACKAGE_VERSION@

        rm -f ${DESTDIR}/usr/local/bin/spamdyke

        ln -s ${DESTDIR}/usr/local/bin/spamdyke-@PACKAGE_VERSION@ ${DESTDIR}/usr/local/bin/spamdyke

But my current problem is that the distribution archive keeps all the sources in spamdyke/ folder instead of root folder which is not what dh_* tools expect to do all the heavy lifting automatically:

drwxr-xr-x   4 vagrant vagrant  4096 Feb  3 10:57 debian

drwxr-xr-x   3 vagrant vagrant  4096 Jan 30 19:43 documentation

drwxr-xr-x   2 vagrant vagrant  4096 Feb  5 21:00 spamdyke

drwxr-xr-x 997 vagrant vagrant 77824 Jan 30 19:43 tests

drwxr-xr-x   2 vagrant vagrant  4096 Jan 20  2012 utils

Unfortunately I am unable to create correct debian/rules to make all the packaging work. I would love to keep my debian/rules as simple as possible and frankly I hoped that pointing it to spamdyke source folder with --builddirectory option would be sufficient at least for configure and build steps. My current debian/rules now looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/make -f

export DH_VERBOSE = 1



%:

        dh $@  --builddirectory=spamdyke



override_dh_auto_configure:

        dh_auto_configure --builddirectory=spamdyke -- --exec_prefix=/usr



override_dh_auto_build:

        dh_auto_make --builddirectory=spamdyke

however debuild -b -us -uc produces pretty empty .deb package in result, with lintian complaining about empty-binary-package:

dpkg-genchanges: binary-only upload (no source code included)

 dpkg-source --after-build spamdyke-4.3.1

dpkg-buildpackage: binary-only upload (no source included)

Now running lintian...

W: spamdyke: new-package-should-close-itp-bug

E: spamdyke: copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl

W: spamdyke: empty-binary-package

Finished running lintian.

I hope must be missing something obvious here, but at the moment I am unable to find out what to search for. Any hints appreciated. Thanks in advance.

You need to set --sourcedirectory instead of --builddirectory on dh $@ call, it will affect all dh_auto_*. So you may remove those overrides.

BUILD SYSTEM OPTIONS

       The following command line options are supported by all of the 

       dh_auto_* debhelper programs. These programs support a variety 

       of build systems, and normally

       heuristically determine which to use, and how to use them. You

       can use these command line options to override the default 

       behavior.  Typically these are passed to

       dh(1), which then passes them to all the dh_auto_* programs.





   -Ddirectory, --sourcedirectory=directory

       Assume that the original package source tree is at the 

       specified directory rather than the top level directory of 

       the Debian source package tree.



   -B[directory], --builddirectory=[directory]

       Enable out of source building and use the specified directory

       as the build directory. If directory parameter is omitted, a 

       default build directory will be chosen.

Source: man debhelper

NOTE:

• 
  

  Avoid using hard-coded paths

  
  
  

  Example /usr/local, Use instead $prefix variable. autotools have /usr/local as default, debhelper reset to /usr (No need to set manually)

  
  
  

  Suggested fixes:

  
  
  

  spamdyke/Makefile.in define prefix and change symbolic link target.

  
  
  

  prefix := @prefix@
  
  ...
  
  install: spamdyke
  
          mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}$(prefix)/bin/
  
          cp spamdyke ${DESTDIR}$(prefix)/bin/spamdyke-@PACKAGE_VERSION@
  
          rm -f ${DESTDIR}$(prefix)/bin/spamdyke
  
          ln -s $(prefix)/bin/spamdyke-@PACKAGE_VERSION@ ${DESTDIR}$(prefix)/bin/spamdyke
  
  

  
  
  

  debian/rules remove the override

  
  
  

  #!/usr/bin/make -f
  
  export DH_VERBOSE=1
  
  
  
  %:
  
          dh $@ --sourcedirectory=spamdyke
  
  

  
  
  

  Reference: GNU Coding Standards