The goal
I have been trying to make a very simple debian package for two days now. There is a java application called fits. In ~40 lines, it can be packaged for osx.
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/fits.rb
I would like to make a debian version of this package. I need to do 3 very simple things.
Comment out a line in fits.xml that crashes the jvm on ubuntu
https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/issues/160Copy the source files to
/usr/share/fitsand symlinkfits.shto/usr/bin/fitsAdd java >= 1.7 as a dependency, since fits.sh just calls java.
The problems
I started off making the debian files myself following this tutorial. I couldn't get that to work because debian/rules uses dh, which expects a Makefile to compile the source.
I tried adding a Makefile to source but I get this error
dpkg-genchanges: error: binary build with no binary artifacts found; cannot distribute
I tried making a blank build step build: ; but I still get an error.
All I want to do is copy files. There is no compile step. I have looked at so many tutorials. All of them have a compile step.
The questions
Does anyone know how to just copy files when building a debian package?
Or do I have to have some sort of compile step?
And if I have to have a compile step, how can I set up ant for a debian package?
Files
debian/rules
#!/usr/bin/make -f
%:
dh $@
debian/control
Source: fits
Section: unknown
Priority: optional
Maintainer: virt <virt@unknown>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>=9)
Standards-Version: 3.9.6
Homepage: <insert the upstream URL, if relevant>
Package: fits
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
Description: harvard file information tool set
