Please help me build this opensource .deb (I get "unresolvable"). - need guru :)

I start by making it for ubuntu, because that I know works, as I already did it manually, then I wish to use OBS for other platforms

What I did:
source from https://github.com/diydrones/apm_planner uploaded as apm_planner.tar.gz

apm_planner.dsc : i entered libraries needed to compile source, and some details.

Format: 1.0
Source: apm_planner
Version: 2.0-b
Binary: apm_planner2
Maintainer: André Kjellstrup <andre.kjellstrup@gmail.com>
Architecture: any
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.1.16),phonon,libqt4-dev,libphonon-dev,libphonon4,phonon-backend-gstreamer,qtcreator,libsdl1.2-dev,libflite1,flite1-dev,build-essential,libopenscenegraph-dev
Files: 
 d57283ebb8157ae919762c58419353c8 133282 apm_planner2.deb
 2fecf324a32123b08cefc0f047bca5ee 63176 apm_planner2.diff.deb

debian.changelog : just a dummy file

apm_planner2 (2.0-b) stable; urgency=low

  * Initial Release

 -- YourName <youremail@hostname.de>  Mon, 25 Dec 2007 10:50:38 +0100

debian.control : not sure shat to do with “section” , “Depends” - I assume these are the dependencies the compiled code need to run, did not add any yet, not to make it too complex.

Source: apm_planner
Section: sectionName
Priority: optional
Maintainer: yourName <yourEmail@hostname.de>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.1.16),phonon,libqt4-dev,libphonon-dev,libphonon4,phonon-backend-gstreamer,qtcreator,libsdl1.2-dev,libflite1,flite1-dev,build-essential,libopenscenegraph-dev
Package: apm_planner2
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
Description: This first line is a brief description
 Then, here there is the long description of the package... 
 also here the syntax is very painful (look at the documentation of Debian Policy
 to avoid errors http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f- Description)

debian.rules : All I did was to replace “make all” with “qmake-qt4 qgroundcontrol.pro” and “make” - I think it’s needed, at least in an enviroment with both qt4 and qt5


#!/usr/bin/make -f
# Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper.
# GNU copyright 1997 to 1999 by Joey Hess.

# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
#export DH_VERBOSE=1

# This is the debhelper compatibility version to use.
export DH_COMPAT=4

CFLAGS = -g
ifneq (,$(findstring noopt,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
CFLAGS += -O0
else
CFLAGS += -O2
endif

build: build-stamp
build-stamp:
    dh_testdir

    # Add here commands to compile the package.
    ./configure
    qmake-qt4 qgroundcontrol.pro
    # --- end custom part for compiling

    touch build-stamp

clean:
    dh_testdir
    dh_testroot
    rm -f build-stamp

    # Add here commands to clean up after the build process.
    make clean || true
    # --- end custom part for cleaning up

    dh_clean

install: build
    dh_testdir
    dh_testroot
    dh_clean -k
    dh_installdirs

    # Add here commands to install the package
    # The DESTDIR Has To Be Exactly  /usr/src/packages/BUILD/debian/<nameOfPackage>
    make install DESTDIR=/usr/src/packages/BUILD/debian/ace
    # --- end custom part for installing

# Build architecture-independent files here.
binary-indep: build install
    # We have nothing to do by default.

# Build architecture-dependent files here.
binary-arch: build install
    dh_testdir
    dh_testroot
#    dh_installdebconf
    dh_installdocs
    dh_installexamples
    dh_installmenu
#    dh_installlogrotate
#    dh_installemacsen
#    dh_installpam
#    dh_installmime
#    dh_installinit
    dh_installcron
    dh_installman
    dh_installinfo
#    dh_undocumented
    dh_installchangelogs
    dh_link
    dh_strip
    dh_compress
    dh_fixperms
#    dh_makeshlibs
    dh_installdeb
#    dh_perl
    dh_shlibdeps
    dh_gencontrol
    dh_md5sums
    dh_builddeb

binary: binary-indep binary-arch
.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install
  • **unresolvable: **
    The build can not begin, because required packages are either missing or not explicitly defined.

If still of interest:

I am no guru :wink: but I think this is the problem:

If you hover your cursor over the red “unresolvable” word (given we’re talking about openSUSE Build Service > Projects > home:AndreK > apm_planner ) you will get a toolinfo text saying:

“nothing provides qtcreator, nothing provides libopenscenegraph-dev”

(normally, clicking the unresolvable/failed/succeeded/… field will also show you the build log file. Sometimes, like here, it doesn’t seem to do that.)

So, basically there is no package named “qtcreator” in the standard xUbuntu 13.10 repositories that can be installed to meet the build requests in your apm_planner.dsc and/or debian.control.

Regards,
Xaver