help making packages

2000-11-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all,

i'd like to package a friend's game, but it requires:

=libsdl1.0  which debian provides
sdl_imagea library which debian doesn't provide
sdl_mixera library which debian doesn't provide

currently, the only way to get sdl_image and sdl_mixer on a debian system is
to compile it from tarball.

is it possible to specify a dependency on a library which has to be made
from tarball (ie- not installed via apt-get or deselect).

pete



Re: help making packages

2000-11-06 Thread Brent Buchholz
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 12:35:01PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
 dear all,
 
 i'd like to package a friend's game, but it requires:
 
 =libsdl1.0  which debian provides
 sdl_imagea library which debian doesn't provide
 sdl_mixera library which debian doesn't provide
 
 currently, the only way to get sdl_image and sdl_mixer on a debian system is
 to compile it from tarball.
 
 is it possible to specify a dependency on a library which has to be made
 from tarball (ie- not installed via apt-get or deselect).
 

It's in woody. apt-cache search libsdl gives:

libsdl-mixer-dev - Development files for SDL mixer library
libsdl-image-dev - Development files for SDL image loading libray
libsdl1.0 - Simple DirectMedia Layer
libsdl1.1 - Simple DirectMedia Layer
libsdl1.0-dev - Development files for Simple DirectMedia Layer
libsdl0.11 - Simple DirectMedia Layer
libsdl-mixer1.1-dev - Development files for SDL1.1 mixer library
libsdl-mixer1.0 - mixer library for Simple DirectMedia Layer
libsdl-mixer1.1 - mixer library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.1
libsdl1.1-dev - Development files for Simple DirectMedia Layer
libsdl-image1.1-dev - Development files for SDL1.1 image loading libray
libsdl-ttf1.2-dev - Development files for SDL ttf library
libsdl-ttf1.2 - ttf library for Simple DirectMedia Layer
libsdl-image1.0 - image loading library for Simple DirectMedia Layer
libsdl-image1.1 - image loading library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.1

Brent

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