As soon as I get a free evening I'll be producing a Debian package of svgalib 1.2.10, which has just been released. That probably means Friday.
-- Richard Kettlewell (Debian svgalib maintainer) http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scott Barker writes: >I'm trying to replace svgalib-1.2.8 with svgalib-1.2.9 > >I'm running debian 0.93R6 > >I grabbed the source for 1.2.9 and applied the same diffs as were applied to >1.2.8 to make the debain package. I edited the debian.rules file to change the >version to 1.29-0, and then created the .deb package. So far so good. > >So, what's the command to actually install the thing? I tried > >dpkg -i svgalib-1.29-0.deb / ^huh? > >which (I think) has worked for me before. However, it fails with an error from >dpkg-split about / being a directory and not a file. > >So, I tried dropping svgalib-1.29-0.deb into my mirror of >debian/stable/binary/graphics, and used dselect. It got unpacked ok, but now >configuring is failing with the message: > >Must specify -r or -w. >dpkg: error processing svgalib (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 >Errors were encountered while processing: > svgalib > >dpkg --configure returned error exit status 1. > > >Can anyone help me with this mess?
