[Neurodebian-devel] Debian packages for Stimfit

[Christoph Schmidt-Hieber]

Dear Yaroslav,

thanks again for recommending the use of private libraries. It works fine the way you suggested it.

I'm now stuck with the multiple packages (stimfit and python-stfio):

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
>> One thing that I would like to add to the deb is the pure-python
>>  stfio module. How would I add this to the deb? Create a new
>> control/rules/etc. directory? Or add a package to the existing files?
>
> you can build as many binary packages as you like from a single source
> package, i.e. debian/control can contain many 'Package: ' entries, in
> this case it should be python-stfio, Architecture: all (if it is
> pure-python without extensions).  then, after things are built, unless
> they get installed directly into debian/binarypackagename/,
> usually they get placed under debian/tmp and you direct which things go
> to which binary packages by creating debian/binarypackagename.install
> files and (unless possible easily with .install files) - by moving
> things into corresponding debian/binarypackagename/ subdirectories
> within debian/rules.
>
> just look into some package for how things done... e.g. libfann of
> Christian seems to be clean enough, so
>
> apt-get source libfann2
>
> and see how things are sorted out

I've looked into libfann2 and some more packages, but either missed the point or they're doing it differently:

In the case of stimfit and python-stfio, the binaries are generated using different configure flags; i.e. to build stimfit, you do:

./configure --enable-python
make
sudo make install

whereas to build python-stfio, you do (in a separate build - none of the *.o files can be re-used):

./configure --enable-module
make
sudo make install

How would I go about this in the debian/rules and debian/*.install files? Do you know of any package that uses a similar build process that I could use as a template? Or should I try to tweak my build toolchain so that both packages are generated during the same build?

Thanks a lot for your help,
Christoph