Making packages

[Will Lowe]

> Presently our custom software packaging system is similar to .deb's
> (metadata, files, pre/post-install scripts) but the packages are built
> by simply collecting a bunch of files that have been generated in various
> places throughout the source tree.  The traditional method of building
> Debian packages doesn't seem to fit the same paradigm.

One thing that might be easy to do is to just make a top-level
Makefile with one target: install.  Then debian/rules can just call
"make install" ... I've also seen debian/rules files stacked full of
calls to "install -o root -g root -m 0644", but IMHO that's *much*
dirtier.

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					thanks,
		
					Will