* initial Debian packaging using CMake

[ebruck]

I've created a Debian package for issue #22:

1. cd Flatabulous
2. mkdir builld
3. cd build
4. cmake ../debian/
5. make package
6. sudo dpkg -i ./flatabulous-theme-0.0.1-noarch.deb

[anmoljagetia]

Oh wow! This is great. Thanks a lot! 👍

Now, we just need to put it up on launchpad to get the apt-get install working?

[ebruck]

Sorry, I've never created a PPA & packaging in Launchpad. You could for now continue to use the releases feature on github?

[anmoljagetia]

Most .deb packages uplink to a PPA (like Google Chrome). Can that be done here somehow? I registered for a Launchpad account and created a package fro theme. That way it would be much easier to distribute the theme based on the installation.

[anmoljagetia]

I am also getting 'bad package' error if I install it via Ubuntu Software Center (by double clicking). The error message is :

Lintian check results for /home/anmol/.themes/Flatabulous/build/flatabulous-theme-0.0.1-noarch.deb:
E: flatabulous-theme: control-file-has-bad-permissions md5sums 0664 != 0644

How can we fix this? It looks like a minor issue?

[anmoljagetia]

Is there a way that we can make this an un-install button? Like it comes with Google Chrome? In Ubuntu Software Center?

[ebruck]

@anmoljagetia It looks like that is a bug in older versions of cmake. Just checked and I get an error as well. I mostly run dpkg at the command line which doesn't complain. I'll look into cleaning up the packaging if possbile.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17796670/cpack-deb-generator-control-file-has-bad-permissions-mdsums-0644-0644

[ebruck]

@anmoljagetia I'll look into this:

From stackoverflow:

This is fixed in the develop branch of CMake, upcoming version 3.3.

[anmoljagetia]

Yeah, I think it is because of a few missing files in the package. I tried running lintian and got a lot of errors and warning, but I can't make much sense of them (all are related to missing files, which I can fix, or file permission issue).

The errors are (posting just in case it is helpful) :

E: flatabulous-theme: changelog-file-missing-in-native-package
E: flatabulous-theme: control-file-has-bad-permissions md5sums 0664 != 0644
E: flatabulous-theme: no-copyright-file
E: flatabulous-theme: description-is-pkg-name Flatabulous theme
E: flatabulous-theme: extended-description-is-empty
W: flatabulous-theme: non-standard-dir-perm usr/ 0775 != 0755
W: flatabulous-theme: non-standard-dir-perm usr/share/ 0775 != 0755
W: flatabulous-theme: non-standard-dir-perm usr/share/themes/ 0775 != 0755
W: flatabulous-theme: non-standard-dir-perm usr/share/themes/Flatabulous/ 0775 != 0755
W: flatabulous-theme: extra-license-file usr/share/themes/Flatabulous/LICENSE

Also, do you know how can we generate the remove option, like in the screenshot above for chromium ?