Hi again, 1. the second part of my question is/was what to do with the source code and what would be the best approach? I think the code should go into syncevolution repository. TDE packages would be provided then by TDE. Is it correct assumption and if yes what is the way for doing it? 2. Now following your advise I updated the package files, but it failed to build anyway here is the config (I copy pasted from my test scripts into debian/rules) and the errors I got. I don't get those errors when I compile using automake. I assume this is something to do with dpkg building shared, but I'll be glad if you could help dh_auto_configure -- --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --libexecdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/syncevolution \ --enable-gui \ --with-rst2man --with-rst2html \ --enable-maintainer-mode \ --enable-core \ --enable-bluetooth \ --enable-tdepimabc \ --enable-tdepimcal \ --enable-tdepimnotes \ --disable-tdewallet \ --enable-sqlite \ --enable-file \ --enable-dav \ --without-gio-gdbus \ --disable-ssl-certificate-check \ --disable-akonadi \ --disable-ebook \ --disable-ecal \ --disable-goa \ --disable-kcalextended \ --disable-kwallet \ --disable-maemocal \ --disable-oauth2 \ --disable-qtcontacts \ --disable-gsso \ --disable-uoa \ --disable-sign dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -d -us -uc or dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -d -us -uc -aamd64 /usr/bin/ld: /opt/software/SyncEvolution/syncevolution-1.5.1/src/build-synthesis/src/.libs/libsynthesissdk.a(libsynthesissdk_la-SDK_util.o): relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `StrAllocN' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status Makefile:5931: recipe for target 'src/syncevo/libsyncevolution.la' failed make[3]: *** [src/syncevo/libsyncevolution.la] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory '/opt/software_x64/SyncEvolution/syncevolution-1.5.1' Makefile:11453: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/opt/software_x64/SyncEvolution/syncevolution-1.5.1' Makefile:4473: recipe for target 'all' failed make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 rm src/dbus/glib/stamp-syncevo-session-bindings.h src/dbus/glib/stamp-syncevo-session-glue.h src/dbus/glib/stamp-syncevo-connection-bindings.h src/dbus/glib/stamp-syncevo-server-glue.h src/dbus/glib/stamp-syncevo-server-bindings.h src/dbus/glib/stamp-syncevo-connection-glue.h make[1]: Leaving directory '/opt/software_x64/SyncEvolution/syncevolution-1.5.1' dh_auto_build: make -j1 returned exit code 2 debian/rules:18: recipe for target 'binary' failed make: *** [binary] Error 2 dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2 perhaps this helps too grep PIC config.log configure:9618: checking for gcc option to produce PIC configure:9625: result: -fPIC -DPIC configure:9633: checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works configure:9651: gcc -c -g -O2 -fPIE -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall -pedantic -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -DPIC -DPIC conftest.c >&5 configure:11095: gcc -shared -fPIC -DPIC conftest.o -v -Wl,-soname -Wl,conftest -o conftest 2\>\&1 \| /bin/grep -lc \>/dev/null 2\>\&1 configure:15166: checking for g++ option to produce PIC configure:15173: result: -fPIC -DPIC configure:15181: checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works configure:15199: g++ -c -g -O2 -fPIE -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -DPIC -DPIC conftest.cpp >&5 lt_cv_prog_compiler_pic='-fPIC -DPIC' lt_cv_prog_compiler_pic_CXX='-fPIC -DPIC'