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Re: Packaging Help for a Newbie Required...

Quote:

Originally Posted by BrentDC (Post 272347)

Actually, I was referring to the 26x26 icon that appears in the application manager; I took a png and converted it to base 64 via:

Code:

openssl base64 -in quick_clip.png -out quick_clip.txt

I copied that text into my control file, into the XB-Maemo-Icon-26: field (making sure that I put a space in front of each newline), but it doesn't show up. I think I did everything correctly...(I used openssl instead of uuencode because uuencode wasn't installed in either Ubuntu or Scratchbox).

Install "shareutils" for uuencode ;)

The problem may just be in the way you're adding the base64 into the control file.

I do this:

Quote:

XB-Maemo-Icon-26:
yyyyyyyyyyyy
yyyyyyyyyyyy

(Which, although the quote doesn't do well to show it, translates to "XB-Maemo-Icon-26:<space>
<space>base64 contents")

Re: Packaging Help for a Newbie Required...

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikkov (Post 272370)

You should post your problematic control file here. Otherwise this just guesswork.

Yes, sir. Here it is:

Code:

Source: quickclip

Section: user/tools

Priority: optional

Maintainer: Brent Chiodo <bchiodo@gmail.com>

Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0)

Standards-Version: 3.6.0

Package: quickclip

Architecture: armel

Depends: python2.5, python2.5-hildon, python2.5-gtk2, python2.5-hildondesktop, hildon-desktop-python-loader

Version: 0.3.0

Description: A Status bar plugin to copy and save information.

 Quick Clip is a statusbar plugin that allows you to easily save

 information into a file for later reference. Whether that information

 is the current text-selection, or something you just want to jot down,

 Quick Clip automates the whole process.

XB-Maemo-Icon-26:

 iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABoAAAAaCAYAAACpSkzOAAAABHNCSVQICAgIfAhk

 iAAABQlJREFUSIndll9oHNcVh79z586sZrX/pPGuZTuqrcVOiikB11EeQl5KG2pK

 +lwoDYE+tI+lEEgCoSHQl9JAm1JoiCmE5CmFPtQPaV03Le5DX9KiQqmj5o+RUimK

 LMuSd2dmd3Zn7unDrlTJElb62stcBi6H891zf+ece+H/bchhiz96+YeB8UyAAgoq

 AA6cw+0YqYITBzp47tkX8/8Z9Ktfv1mdfWDuaRHvPKCCoiPP7P0BiJhhp3t38d+r

 K1fzvFj6zre/q/f62xn23oUi1wunTs6+MB1Nt1QV1IlTJcsyup0ujak6qg5VVRDy

 YZFH0fQ/b968+dIrP3n5yve+/4w7DGQOgIrCF8EYIwyHAzqdDqqO4XDIxsYGw3yI

 qqpTR14MGeSZnX3gcw+fe/DcK6dOn/rm5V/+IvhMIKeKKqgq3W6XxcX3WV9fJ8+H

 xHHC9tY2SZpImiTSzzIKV5CkiZw53Z49PXfmx42pqa+9evnnByQ5GJErUBRVJ6oq

 5XLIx8srxEkCAnc2t+ilPdJenyROpN/rSZqm9Pt9msdax2eOz/ygVq099OprP7s/

 SJ2CKk4d1rdExyJUlbgTUw5D0rSPtT6BHxD4AZ549Hp9WVx8j6WlZUrhxPnJSuUb

 paBs7wtybufoAJQg8Gm2jrG2to6q0ul0GA5zjDEYY/CspVqdpHW8RavVpFGrB9F0

 9C1r7fRevweybpxRKIqIICI0GnWSKOX27TsMsowkSSmXw3vdiB8ElMNQ424yV7hi

 4v4g5xhVKWTZgEE2QESoT1XZ3t6m1+uzcWuDSqWM53l7NqggojI5iSri3P4sPwBy

 OipQUaUUBFjPA4RyGDI4OSSOY/q9Pr71mQj3bFrB+lY8Y0ZY3Q86RKORgXgezjny

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 hbPtNhtXrrB87Q94rRblzz9EY36etBnBcH9DP7RgdRxRlmWkaUqv16Ofjme/Tyvr

 c+q3v8NXmHvpRSqPPUa+tUXz0iWiixfZ/tN1zLt/O0KjPSJaawmCYDRL4xmUqEXH

 qEyUuPv224T1Bmeff47Gpa+icYznHN7WFmbt0yNAzu0W60izUY3oziWoimQD6vOP

 4lcqJAsL1GZOMPuVJ7h19fes/OYK5txZske+eJRGuuNQy+UyI6bsJgQimFoNvXCB

 chTx8VtvcfrJrzPz+OPU2m215ZDehx+QL/z1qIgKFERVsdbil3z8wKcU+JRKPqUg

 YKLZpNjcZLLdxq9WWbt2DS8IqLbnCGdaiPUoXLHvqrg3IrNxa0OTJE6TJKmNuorA

 6Bsfp6DVSYJWU27/fcHUn/iyW37jTa/86Hxh6zUVEQaDQXfp5pI3DsQdAImI/vn6

 X/7Vas38tFGvnx1dgsoIo7sdHRFst2tKNxZnvTA8ESwszN64/NrV4uSJjojo5p3b

 N95554932fPC2BfexMQERVHIFx4+b6NoyuR5Lk7/W+G7ICCsVPRLix+12mKe1DQJ

 /2G916+fmU1Lga+frq279268n7s97eHQ59ZnHe9evMhyHAe9OOap1dXB/Wz/A/bi

 ilzUOf87AAAAAElFTkSuQmCC

Installed-size: 127

Re: Packaging Help for a Newbie Required...

Quote:

Originally Posted by qole (Post 272362)

I know that Khertan's PyPackager does the icon conversion; perhaps you can peek into his code to see how he does it?

I'll take a look at the code and try to see what's going on; also, I'll try extracting the control file from a pypackager-built package.

Quote:

Oh, and while you're there, are you interested in updating it? I've got a few feature requests...

Depends on the feature request and the pypackager code; I'm still very much a python newbie, and if Khertan's code is too advanced I won't be able to do much with it. Although, it shouldn't be too hard to add a gtk.ScrolledWindow() to the change log tab...

Re: Packaging Help for a Newbie Required...

Ah, ha! The pypackager built deb has a "Maemo-Icon-26" field not a "XB-Maemo-Icon-26" field...hmm. I guess I'll try that...

Re: Packaging Help for a Newbie Required...

Yes, the "Maemo-Icon-26" worked. The icon now appears fine. I just wonder why XB- didn't? Strange.

Re: Packaging Help for a Newbie Required...

If you have to use Maemo-Icon-26 w/out the XB-, you're not making a package that the autobuilder will accept.

Re: Packaging Help for a Newbie Required...

Quote:

Originally Posted by qwerty12 (Post 272387)

If you have to use Maemo-Icon-26 w/out the XB-, you're not making a package that the autobuilder will accept.

Then icons must not be possible with local debs? Because XB- certainly doesn't work.

Re: Packaging Help for a Newbie Required...

Are you building the package with dpkg-buildpackage?

Non-related suggestions:

use "Architecture: all" since this is pure python application

with "XB-Maemo-Display-Name:" field you can get better formatted title, for example "XB-Maemo-Display-Name: Quickclip"

Re: Packaging Help for a Newbie Required...

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikkov (Post 272400)

I'm using dpkg-deb --build <source directory name> to build the package. When I tried using dpkg-buildpackage I was getting all kinds of errors, most notably a "dpkg-source: unrepresentable changes to source" error; even with that error, a *.tar.gz, *.dsc and some other files were created, but no *.deb. Is dpkg-buildpackage supposed to create a .deb? The Diablo Maemo Reference seemed to indicate it should. Thanks.

Re: Packaging Help for a Newbie Required...

yes, you should be using dpkg-buildpackage to build .debs, it might have something to do with missing icon.

I believe qwerty12 explained how to fix the problem with dpkg-buildpackage. If those instructions are not helping, I have to ask you to post the error message and maybe the whole source package here. Otherwise we are, again, just guessing :)