On Monday 05 February 2007 04:32, Andrew Barr wrote: > It seems a lot of Debian source packages now require debhelper >= 5. > This is a PITA because Scratchbox only has 4.2.32 and as far as I can > tell building it is going to be no small task...I am failing to build > the dependency libmodule-build-perl.
I have built libmodule-build-perl. it is available from my repository (see http://www.cobb.uk.net/770/index.html). > Is there any easy way around this or do I have to write my own Debian > packaging metadata? That would be a shame because it seems to me that > Maemo could greatly benefit from the vast array of Debian source > packages that are already available from your favorite FTP mirror site. In my experience, every package that I have tried to port so far does not really depend on debhelper 5. If you change debian/compat to contain "4", and either change the build dependencies or just use the -d option of dpkg-buildpackage, debhelper works. Of course, I am sure there are some packages which really need debhelper 5 so it would be good to see that available in the scratchbox environment. Graham _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
