On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:35:22PM -, StealthMonger wrote:
Debian discourages creating Debian-native packages: This type of
packaging is only appropriate for the debian-specific packages, which
will never be useful in another distribution. [1] But creating it
for other distributions
Hi,
Is there a document describing software packaging good practices for
general use, not specific to Debian, preferably in electronic form?
You might be looking for autoconf/automake (although it's a bit rusty,
and quite a few people loathe it, it's one working current standard we
have).
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:35:22PM -, StealthMonger wrote:
Is there a document describing software packaging good practices for
general use, not specific to Debian, preferably in electronic form?
Policy describes how Debian packages should look. If you don't intend to get
the package into
Hi Miry!
* Miriam Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060308 08:50]:
- debian/control: You could add the Upstream Homepage (as described in
the developers reference [1])
Is it worth mentioning the home page in the description, even when that home
page has not extra relevant information apart from
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:57:07PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote..
I would suggest to Enhances: mutt, in addition to suggesting it.
Also the homepage field is supposedly supposed to be indented with
an extra space.
+ -$(MAKE) distclean is evil, see Branden's bug against lintian.
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:06:57AM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote:
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:57:07PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote..
I would suggest to Enhances: mutt, in addition to suggesting it.
Also the homepage field is supposedly supposed to be indented with
an extra space.
+
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:18:55AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote..
+ -$(MAKE) distclean is evil, see Branden's bug against
lintian.
Did you look into this? It is #325372.
Yes I did, and in all honesty did not follow it 100%. But that
said, I've rewritten my rules file and now do not
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 11:47:10AM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote:
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:18:55AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote..
+ -$(MAKE) distclean is evil, see Branden's bug against
lintian.
Did you look into this? It is #325372.
Yes I did, and in all honesty did not follow
I am creating a package for the of rtl8180-sa2400 drivers
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtl8180-sa2400) and I have a question
about editing the rules file in debian/ in the source archive after dh_make.
I wish for the package to install some files in three places:
1. /lib/modules/$(uname
Hello,
I have updated a few of my packages. Since I have not been able to get
a hold of my AM, I would appreciate it if some kind DD would upload the
packages here:
http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto/debian/uploads/
All of the packages were built in a pbuilder and are lintian clean.
Regards,
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:51:36AM -0800, Martin Kelly wrote:
I am creating a package for the of rtl8180-sa2400 drivers
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtl8180-sa2400) and I have a question
about editing the rules file in debian/ in the source archive after dh_make.
I wish for the package
Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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Hi,
Is there a document describing software packaging good practices for
general use, not specific to Debian, preferably in electronic form?
You might be looking for autoconf/automake (although it's a bit rusty,
and
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:27:14PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
I just released a new version of beef, and created a new Debian package.
[snip]
Any comment is welcome. A sponsor, even more.
It's all fine, uploaded. I personally have no problem with the use of
the word 'brainfuck' in the
Martin Kelly wrote:
I am creating a package for the of rtl8180-sa2400 drivers
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtl8180-sa2400) and I have a question
about editing the rules file in debian/ in the source archive after dh_make.
I wish for the package to install some files in three places:
1.
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On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:35:22PM -, StealthMonger wrote:
Is there a document describing software packaging good practices for
general use, not specific to Debian, preferably in electronic form?
I'm
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 01:41:54PM -0500, Joe Smith wrote:
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Hi,
Is there a document describing software packaging good practices for
general use, not specific to Debian, preferably in electronic form?
You might be
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 07:00:12PM -, StealthMonger wrote:
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Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:35:22PM -, StealthMonger wrote:
Is there a document describing software packaging good practices for
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 11:52:23AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote..
+ -$(MAKE) distclean is evil, see Branden's bug against
lintian.
Did you look into this? It is #325372.
Yes I did, and in all honesty did not follow it 100%. But that
said, I've rewritten my rules file
Hello,
I have build a deb-package for picprog 1.8[*]. However, when I run lintian,
I get this error:
| pts/3 jan ~/deb$ lintian picprog_1.8-1_i386.changes
| W: picprog: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/picprog.1.gz 44:
warning: can't find numbered character 195
| pts/3 jan
Joe Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm not sure why people don't like the autotools. They generally work
very well. The makefiles they make are even able to re-run the
autotools to update itself when needed! They generally work well.
They're painfully slow.
When using Autoconf, I have to
Hi Jan
Jan Wagemakers Jan Wagemakers [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
| pts/3 jan ~/deb$ lintian picprog_1.8-1_i386.changes
| W: picprog: manpage-has-errors-from-man
| usr/share/man/man1/picprog.1.gz 44: warning: can't find numbered
| character 195 pts/3 jan ~/deb$
In this manpage the character ä
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Some convenient interface for doing whatever has to be done; in the case
of shell scripts, just provide a makefile or shscript, or python or
whatever you prefer which accepts PREFIX or DESTDIR or whatever..
It doesn't matter so much if it is #! /bin/sh
Martin Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am creating a package for the of rtl8180-sa2400 drivers
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtl8180-sa2400) and I have a question
about editing the rules file in debian/ in the source archive after
dh_make.
I wish for the package to install some files
Jan Wagemakers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In this manpage the character ä is used twice. When I change those ä's
with a a the warnings disappear.
My question :
How should I handle this? I can modify picprog.1, but the ä is used in
the name of the programmer of picprog (Jaakko Hyvätti) so I
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 02:19:02PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
I edited the Makefile to install into DESTDIR and defined DESTDIR to be
/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/wireless so that should work.
[...]
You almost certainly don't want to be using uname -r.
[...]
You probably want to use the
Hi, Mentors!
I'm helping out Nicolas Boullis with the em8300 packages. This is an
out-of-tree kernel module and utilities to make use of Creative DXR3
and Sigma Designs Hollywood+ DVD decoders cards. I've been discussing
with Nicolas various things about the packages while trying to make a
I will look over all the suggestions. They help clear up some confusions
I was having.
So, subdirectories in ./debian/ is how you specify where to install
everything? To install some files in /usr/sbin, I just put those files
in ./debian/usr/sbin? If so, that is very nice and simple.
Thanks
Martin Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I will look over all the suggestions. They help clear up some confusions
I was having.
So, subdirectories in ./debian/ is how you specify where to install
everything? To install some files in /usr/sbin, I just put those files
in ./debian/usr/sbin? If
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef:
[ä in man page]
How should I handle this? I can modify picprog.1, but the ä is used in
the name of the programmer of picprog (Jaakko Hyvätti) so I don't know
if that is really a good idea?
Replace ä with \[:a].
Great! I have fixed picprog.1 and now
Erik Schanze [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef:
[ä in man page]
You shuld escape umlauts in manpages.
Please see groff_char(7).
Interesting. Thanks for pointing me to that man page!
--
Met vriendelijke groetjes - Jan Wagemakers -
... http://janw.wisclub.org/
Hi,
The possible exception is in combination with gnulib, but this seems
inconsistent, since most people I've asked, who know about autofoo,
don't know what gnulib is. But I'd love to understand more than I do.
There are now projects that want to use autotools because it is
right, even
Got it, thanks.
Russ Allbery wrote:
Martin Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I will look over all the suggestions. They help clear up some confusions
I was having.
So, subdirectories in ./debian/ is how you specify where to install
everything? To install some files in /usr/sbin, I just put
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