On Thu, 1 May 2003 11:46:39 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 12:39:00PM -0800, Fielder George Dowding > wrote:> I am attempting to become the maintainer for Defoma, a > package that> has been orphaned for over two months (#180188). I > have successfully> downloaded the .deb, expanded it, and > repackaged the .deb using the> various tools for doing so. > > Ugh! Don't do that! Get the source package and modify it. > Whoops! I should have pointed out Defoma is a set of perl scripts, which apparently suffers from the same lintian problem as do other packages containing perl scripts. My purpose was to learn the ropes of packaging a source tree and checking it prior to presenting it for peer review. I have been looking at the bug reports, but I do not sufficiently grok the code to suggest fixes. > > I ran lintian (which produced a couple of mild complaints), but > > I don't have "linda" and can't find it. > > 'apt-get install linda' on testing or unstable. > > Cheers, It appears I will have to set up a testing and unstable box to deal with this. I must keep my stable box for production. Is there any advice along these lines? > > -- > Colin Watson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Thank you all for your replies. fgd. -- Fielder George Dowding, Chief Iceworm dba Iceworm Enterprises, Anchorage, Alaska Since 1976 - Over 25 Years of Service.
