Don't worry, the 'md5sum' file as well as the 'postinst' and
'prerm' files are not mandatory for your first package.
But please take a note of their
existence, every proper official Debian package has them
for good reasons.
'prerm' and 'postinst' seem to take care of removing old documentation files
and adding a link from doc to share/doc.
$ cat postinst
#!/bin/sh
set -e
# Automatically added by dh_installdocs
if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then
if [ -d /usr/doc -a ! -e /usr/doc/parted -a -d /usr/share/doc/parted ]; then
ln -sf ../share/doc/parted /usr/doc/parted
fi
fi
# End automatically added section
$ cat prerm
#!/bin/sh
set -e
# Automatically added by dh_installdocs
if [ \( "$1" = "upgrade" -o "$1" = "remove" \) -a -L /usr/doc/parted ]; then
rm -f /usr/doc/parted
fi
# End automatically added section
And finally the most interesting file:
$ cat control
Package: parted
Version: 1.4.24-4
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Architecture: i386
Depends: e2fsprogs (>= 1.27-2), libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libncurses5 (>= \
5.2.20020112a-1), libparted1.4 (>= 1.4.13+14pre1), libreadline4 (>= \
4.2a-4), libuuid1
Suggests: parted-doc
Conflicts: fsresize
Replaces: fsresize
Installed-Size: 76
Maintainer: Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org>
Description: The GNU Parted disk partition resizing program
GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy,
resize, move and copy hard disk partitions. This is useful
for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing
disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.
.
This package contains the Parted binary and manual page.
.
Parted currently supports DOS, Mac, Sun, BSD, GPT and PC98
disklabels/partition tables, as well as a 'loop' (raw disk)
type which allows use on RAID/LVM. Filesystems supported are
ext2, ext3, FAT (FAT16 and FAT32) and linux-swap. Parted can
also detect HFS (Mac OS), JFS, NTFS, ReiserFS, UFS and XFS
filesystems, but cannot create/remove/resize/check these
filesystems yet.
.
The nature of this software means that any bugs could cause
massive data loss. While there are no known bugs at the moment,
they could exist, so please back up all important files before
running it, and do so at your own risk.
Further information about the control file can be obtained via 'man 5 deb-control'.
