On Di, 15 Jun 2010, Lloyd Standish wrote: > Of course I came to that idea by running lintian (Lintian v1.24.2.1+lenny1) > against the binary deb. It reported nothing (clean). I think the problem is > that I am running the Debian stable (Lenny) version of dpkg-dev, and you are > probably running sid. I see now that for software intended for sid I should > run the sid versions of these tools.
No, the problem is that you run it *ONLY* on the binary package and *NOT* on the source package. Best is to: - unpack the source package - build it with dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot (or any other incantantion you like) - after that you have in the parent dir a .changes files that lists the binary and source package files - on that changes file you run lintian (as shown in my previous email) If you do that on lenny it will the same spit out warnings over warnings! > I also see that I overlooked that the binary-arch target is required - sorry. That is why lintian is for, and it is working, also on lenny. Only you didn't use it the right way. > It did not occur to me to check for gtkdialog in Sid (it is available in > Lenny http://packages.debian.org/lenny/gtkdialog). So, until there is a > gtkdialog package in Sid, snap2 cannot run. This is a great disappointment - > I put a lot of effort into this, my first Debian package. Check for zenity, but you have to adjust the way it is invoced, AFAIS the --program option is not present. Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Norbert Preining prein...@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org} JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JARROW (adj.) An agricultural device which, when towed behind a tractor, enables the farmer to spread his dung evenly across the width of the road. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
