[Fink-devel] Howto port a Debian package to Fink?

[Jonas S. <jt...@br...>]

Hello,
  new list member here but old user of Fink. I have really  
appreciated your work over the years and Fink is one of the reasons I  
have not looked back towards Debian since I left it in '01, I also  
usually encourage my friends that buy Macs to check out Fink (they  
are usually of the Linux persuasion).

Now to my project, so to speak: I have a problem with my Gnome setup  
(see my post on the User list for further info) and decided that I  
need to build a system-firefox package and/or a generic webbrowser  
package that installs a binary that opens whichever url it is fed in  
the system's default webbrowser (Safari, Omniweb, ....). Both of  
these will Provide Firefox, so I can satisfy a dependancy for Gnome  
(I don't want two Firefoxes on my system, one installed as an .app  
and one installed and built using Fink).

I would also like to create a bogus xscreensaver package so I can get  
rid of the damn screen saver (again, please see my post to the user  
list for reference).

So, my problem is that I have never build a package for Fink before  
and I have read the tutorials at the website. Problem, as I see it,  
is that it assumes that the program has never been packaged before  
and I was planning to port the equivs package to Fink and assumed  
that there would be a faster way of porting a program that already is  
a package.

My questions is simply if there is a short-cut if I want to port an  
existing Debian package? Google could not find any answers for my  
questions...

Is equivs the right choice for my problem (the system-xxx packages  
mentioned above) or should it be done in some other way?

(Any suggestions on how to implement the generic web browser is also  
welcome, my idea was to write a Cocoa CLI program that invokes
	[[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"any  
command line argument after a bit of sanity checking"]];
All ideas are welcome, but the idea is to keep it simple.)

Thanks,
  Jonas