[Zint-barcode] Building a debian deb

[John C. <jc...@sa...>]

Hi,

I have been trying to build a deb for v2.6.3

I finally figured out how to build 2.6.0 - the build wants
"zint_2.6.0.orig.tar.gz" but the download is "zint-2.6.0.src.tar.gz"

So:

wget
 https://sourceforge.net/projects/zint/files/zint/2.6.0/zint-2.6.0.src.tar.gz
 -O zint_2.6.0.orig.tar.gz

tar -zxvf zint_2.6.0.orig.tar.gz

cd zint-2.6.0

dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

zint_2.6.0_amd64.deb
zint-qt_2.6.0_amd64.deb


OK,

Trying the same sort of thing with 2.6.3

tar -zxvf zint-2.6.3_final.tar.gz

This gives us 2.6.3.src (inconsistent dir name)

cd zint-2.6.3.src

dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

dpkg-buildpackage: source package zint
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 2.6.0
dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution stable
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Robin Stuart <rst...@gm...>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64
 dpkg-source --before-build zint-2.6.3.src
 fakeroot debian/rules clean
dh clean
   dh_testdir
   dh_auto_clean
   dh_clean
 dpkg-source -b zint-2.6.3.src
dpkg-source: warning: non-native package version does not contain a
revision dpkg-source: info: using source format '3.0 (quilt)'
dpkg-source: info: building zint using existing ./zint_2.6.0.orig.tar.gz


Finally found that I needed to edit the debian/changelog to get it to
work. It could do with being updated properly.

When I was there I noticed there were loads of entries missing, but at
least it built.

zint_2.6.3_amd64.deb
zint-qt_2.6.3_amd64.deb


The only think I can't figure how to do is add the .desktop to the deb
file automatically.

Ironically I can see the conf in the RPM spec file but nothing in
the Debian dir. I can also see some mimelink stuff as well for when you
do a straight build with 'make install' but not in the debian dir

And last but not least....

Installing zint as a deb sems to depend on libpng12-dev ??
And zint-qt depends on libqt4-dev ?

Removed those and it builds fine so I think you can patch with this (if
the project was on github I'd try and submit a PR)


--- zint-2.6.3.src.old/debian/control	2018-02-15
11:47:59.000000000 +0100 +++ zint-2.6.3.src/debian/control
2019-06-06 16:41:18.002142098 +0200 @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 Package: zint
 Section: libs
 Architecture: any
-Depends: libpng12-dev
 Description: A library for encoding data in barcode symbols.
    Zint is an Open Source barcode encoding and image generating
library. It currently features support for over 50 symbologies including
@@ -29,7 +28,7 @@
 Package: zint-qt
 Section: libs
 Architecture: any
-Depends: zint (= ${binary:Version}), libqt4-dev
+Depends: zint (= ${binary:Version})
 Description: Zint Barcode Studio.
    This package contains Zint Barcode Studio, a QT frontend for the
Zint barcode encoding library.


B. Rgds
John