2009/6/27 Nick Leverton <[email protected]>: > First, you call dh_quilt_unpatch from your clean target, however this > command is provided by quilt which is not part of build-essential. > Pbuilder only auto-installs the dependencies after cleaning the package - > but it will not do this as the clean fails. You might fix this by doing > "dh_quilt_unpatch || true" in your clean.
It builds fine in my pbuilder without this. > Second, you need a build-dep for libtool which is required by the build. Grrr. Yes, thanks. > In your control file, libiulib-dev Depends: on libiulib, however your > packaging builds the library in libiulib0 so the -dev package will > not install. I find it worth actually installing my final packages and > using them to catch errors of this sort before upload. Of course, I did install (and use) it, but made modifications, and didn't install it again. Thanks for pointing that out. > Recent comments here suggest that "a" is un-needed at the start of the > short description :) OK. Fixed. > Is it worth mentioning in the short description that the library is for > C++ ? Many other libraries specify the language in the short description OK. Added. > As well, there is a pedantic Lintian warning: "P: iulib source: > source-contains-svn-control-dir" . Seems like each of your dirs has the > .svn directory still. It's only a pedantic warning and not something I > would think worth re-creating the tarball for, but might be worth asking > upstream to clean their release. Thanks. I had noticed that. Thanks for your help. I have uploaded the package again with the above changes. Regards Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
