Khiraly wrote:
I have read this documentation: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingDebian
This documentation is indeed ancient and won't work, you'll need to debianize the package yourself. Debian says that packages should not ship their own debian directories, so it's actually good it doesn't work.
There is no debian/ directory in the inkscape source. The inkscape does not use autoconfig but cmake if I see it correctly.
It uses automake / autoconf, but formerly there were some attempts to use CMake. Currently the CMake system doesn't work, at least on Linux, mainly due to link order issues.
So can somebody direct me to an updated documentation? How can I create a proper debian/ directory, and building the package with help of this directory?
Try to copy over the debian directory of the Inkscape package that's shipped in Ubuntu repos.
Using this command: dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot
It's better to use debuild -uc -us instead.
I hope this helps a bit.
Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński