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	BrentDC	2009-03-17 , 01:57
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Hello Jeremiah, welcome to the community :-)

Originally Posted by jeremiah

My first concern about the link you posted is what it says at the top;

"Warning: This article is out of date and should not be used for creating new packages."

It then goes on to point to the Debian New Maintainer's guide, which is the canonical, in fact the only reliable, guide to packaging debs. Do begin here since Maemo relies on debs being built first, then modifying the deb slightly to fit maemo.

I just got that website via a google of the error I received; I wasn't using it as a guide or anything, frankly I haven't been using any guide.

The main reason I picked the Python language to use for my program is that it's easy to use. And so far packaging via Pypackager was easy, too. But now that I want to get this thing uploaded to Extras, it has become a major hassle.

If you are still getting errors, you can mail me at jeremiah@maemo.org and I'll see if I can help. One of my goals is to create a python packaging howto so maybe we can work on that. :^)

I think creating a python packaging howto would be great, especially considering a lot of newbie programmers (like myself) use this language. Those that use C, probably are already familiar with the make, build, and configure steps, so packaging probably seems a lot more logical; while to a python programmer like myself, it's basically like greek.

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