On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:59:51AM -0600, Sam TH wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 04:08:05PM +0100, Paolo Molaro wrote: > > On 02/23/01 Sam TH wrote: > > > I'm an illustrious member of the NM queue, and have completed a > > > package that I would be very grateful if people would check for me, to > > > make sure that I haven't missed anything. It produces no errors or > > > warnings with lintian. > > > > > > The package is uf-view, and it's a GNOME based viewer for the User > > > Friendly comic strip. Packages are available (src and i386) at > > > > > > deb http://samth.dyndns.org/debian ./ > > > > A few quick comments. > > It's missing build-dependencies. > > Added. However, is there a good way to check build-depends, or do you > just have to guess? > > > You should also check that it complies with latest policy 3.5.x. > > Changed policy version, still no lintian output. > > > Also, you should not change previous records in debian/changelog: > > preserve history! > > Changed. > > > You install the generic installation instructions in /usr/share/doc: > > this is not needed. > > Despite specifiying specifcally 3 different files (not including > INSTALL) on the dh_installdocs command line in debian/rules, it still > installs that file. How can I work around this? > Most likely cause, debian/docs or debian/$package.docs. If you used dh_make, it seems to pick up INSTALL. Maybe a bug should be filed against dh_make?
If you have 0 debian/*docs files, try -X with dh_installdocs, shouldn't be needed though : dh_installdocs -X INSTALL <SNIP> Gordon Sadler
