[ uhm? This is a debian, not a Ubuntu list.. Anyway... And I Cc the Ubuntu maintainer... ]
Hi, On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 04:07:50PM -0600, Eswaravaka, Sasi wrote: > 1) Got the source from > [1]http://www.libreoffice.org/download/?type=src&version=3.6.3 wrong. That's plain upstream sourcecode. > 3) I realized that there is no debian folder under the source code to > package to debian. Of course not. > 4) I downloaded the source code for libreoffice 3.5.6 and where we > have the debian folder with control, rules files. You probably you got Ubuntus source package. So you also could just have gotten Debians 3.6.3 source package (-> experimental) That is kept update with new releases. No idea why Ubuntu didn't yet update... (rc2 is identical to the final.) > I suspected that this issue may be because of the dependencies not added > in the control file. So I thought of updating the dependencies properly in > the control file, for that I am thing to follow below steps. 3.5.x->3.6.x needs many changes in debian > 3) Now ran the apt-rdepends command to find out the dependencies of > libreoffice3.6.3 which only makes sense with the Debian debs. Upstream "debs" don't have the necessary info > 4) Use the same rules file from 3.5.6 > > 5) Planning to update the control file and rerun the debuild command. As said above, wrong. > As updating the control file is going to take some time, before that I > wanted to confirm with you whether I am going in the right direction. You are not. > Please direct me if there is any issue in the way I am trying to build the > packages. Yes. It completely makes no sense. > 1) Is it safe to use the same rules file from libreoffice3.5.6 source > code? No. > 2) Is the above followed direction correct to build packages? No. Regards, Rene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
