El ds 18 de 12 del 2004 a les 22:39 +0000, en/na Helen Faulkner va escriure: > Hi, > > I hope this isn't a too dumb question! > > I'm the maintainer for xwrits, and partway through the NM process. My > application manager (Frank Lichtenheld) has sent me a review of my packages, > and I am confused about one of the things he suggested I do. > > xwrits currently depends on xlibs-dev. Frank suggests that I replace that > with only the needed dependencies. > > What I am confused about is how to tell what it really needs and what it > doesn't really need. I don't know that much about X, in general. xlibs-dev > seems to be a package that does nothing but depend on a collection of many > different X libraries. But I don't know what all those libraries do (and > no, I don't want to read the code for all of them!). > I use this trick:
# Here's a hack you can use to find out which packages your package needs to be built: strace -f -o /tmp/log ./configure # or make instead of ./configure, if the package doesn't use autoconf for x in `dpkg -S $(grep open /tmp/log|perl -pe 's!.* open\(\"([^ \"]*).*!$1!' |grep "^/"| sort | uniq| grep -v "^\(/tmp\|/dev\|/proc\)" ) 2>/dev/null|cut -f1 -d":"| sort | uniq`; do echo -n "$x (>=" `dpkg -s $x|grep ^Version|cut -f2 -d":"` "), "; done I think it could help you :) > So, the only thing I thought to do is > a) look at every header file that is #included in the xwrits code > b) use dlocate or similar to see which packages all those headers are in. > c) make xwrits build-depend on those packages. > > But this will take me quite a long time. I wondered if I am missing > something obvious and there is a better way to do it. Or am I on the right > track after all. > > Now, obviously, I don't want someone to actually tell me which things I > should be build-depending on. I want to know how to work out such things > for myself in the future :) (It would also defy the point of my AM asking > me this.) But I would appreciate a hint... > > Thanks, > > Helen > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
