Documentation: http://debathena.mit.edu/packaging/ has some basic
documentation that you may find useful, and links to many useful
resources.

For these exercises, the sources you should start from are available
in /mit/sipb-iap/www/debpackaging/.  The examples are also available
there.

If you don't have a Debian machine to work with, all the build
dependencies for building these packages are available on
linerva.mit.edu.  You can also try setting up a VM by visiting
xvm.mit.edu and trying the autoinstaller.

Exercises: In each of the following exercises, your job is to write
the debian/rules file for the package.  For the first three, the
debian/rules file has been deleted.  For the fourth, your job is to
convert the package from using debhelper to CDBS.  For each package, I
have provided a correct .deb file built on etch that you can use to
compare with the package you build using 'debdiff --controlfiles=all
a.deb b.deb'.  This will check the _lists_ of files are the same, not
the binary contents; you'll have to extract to compare contents.
Also, make sure that you have no lintian errors that you don't
understand.  Another thing to check is whether the .diff.gz file
generated by building the source package contains any files outside
the debian/ directory (using e.g. diffstat *.diff.gz); These probably
correspond to bugs in 'debuild clean' code.

  - Package debathena-athinfo.
  - Package debathena-delete.  Be sure to compile for AFS.
  - Package palp.  Note that the original source has been sabotaged
    tarball so that it doesn't build by deleting a #include line.  You
    should use quilt to fix it!
  - Convert sloccount to CDBS (first download the source package)
  - Create a new Debian package for the hes program (/mit/consult/src/hes).

Feel free to get any of the Debathena developers to check your
solutions for correctness, or ask them any other question that you
might have.