On 14-Dec-98 Fernando Sanchez wrote: > Hello, > I'm packaging ocaml, a ml-type language interpreter and compiler, > and everything works ok but I have two questions, I hope quite easy to > answer: > > First, to compile ocaml I need to call "make install" (in 'rules' file) in > the following way for it to install binaries where it has to: > > $(MAKE) install BINDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr/bin \ > LIBDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr/lib/ocaml MANDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr/man/man1 > > of course everything works fine, but this way no change is made to original > Makefiles and it's not reflected in .diff file generated with source > package. In Debian-policy it is stated that every change which is made to > sources in order to install properly on Debian systems should be reflected > in the .diff file and I don't know if it's very important or will be ok if I > compile this way. > > I can arrange it to have a totally complete .diff but this way it's much > easier and 'cleaner', IMO. What should I do? >
This is completely fine as you describe it. > > Second question; after dpkg-buildpackage, I call lintian -v -i foobar.changes > and it returs the following error: > > E: ocaml: script-without-interpreter usr/lib/ocaml/camlheader_ur > N: This file starts with the #! sequence that identifies scripts, but it > N: does not name an interpreter. > > That file starts with #! and it's not a script; in fact, camlheader_ur > contains only this string and nothing else and is used by some other ocaml > libraries. Is this interpreted as a fatal error and does it prevent me from > contributing it to Debian, or is not too much important? > You need to report this to the lintian maintainer so your package will not generate this error. lintian is a checker, it does not stop apps from coming into Debian. Think of it like compiler errors and warnings -- best to fix them, but not necessarily deadly.
