INSTALL.gz with generic installation instructions

2001-01-06 Thread Marc Haber
Bug #79854 says that I should probably remove INSTALL.gz from my package, presumably because it contains only the "Generic Installation Instructions" that other packages like irssi and findutils contain as well. Is it allowed or desired to exclude documentation from binary packages that are in

Re: INSTALL.gz with generic installation instructions

2001-01-06 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20010106T13+0100, Marc Haber wrote: Is it allowed or desired to exclude documentation from binary packages that are in the source? Of course, if done with taste. The INSTALL file almost never should be installed (it would not do any good for it to be installed, since the user does the

Re: seperate dependencies for architectures

2001-01-06 Thread Goswin Brederlow
" " == Bas Zoetekouw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Goswin! You wrote: Yes its possible and its covered. Try the web pages, I saw it there yesterday. You are mistaken. It is only desribed for build time relationships (Build-Depends, etc). And no, the same procedure

Re: seperate dependencies for architectures

2001-01-06 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Goswin! You wrote: You can set whatever depends during build, just like the ${shlibs:Depends} does. Ah, that's a solution that I didn't think about. Thanks! -- Kind regards, +---+ | Bas Zoetekouw | Si l'on sait

Re: seperate dependencies for architectures

2001-01-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 11:13:43AM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: For my sndconfig package, I would like to declare a different dependecy for the sparc architecture (sndconfig/sparc does not require isapnp, which isn't even available for sparc). Is this possible? I haven't been able to find

different sizes for same upstream tarball

2001-01-06 Thread Jason Henry Parker
Hi, The byacc upstream tarball on ftp.debian.org 52916 bytes long, but on my development system, it compresses to 52930 bytes. (There hasn't been an upload of this package in about a year, shame on me.) I need to do an upload to fix several bugs, there have been no upstream changes (I think

Re: seperate dependencies for architectures

2001-01-06 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Goswin! You wrote: Yes its possible and its covered. Try the web pages, I saw it there yesterday. You are mistaken. It is only desribed for build time relationships (Build-Depends, etc). And no, the same procedure doesn't work for an ordinary Depends relation. -- Kind regards,

INSTALL.gz with generic installation instructions

2001-01-06 Thread Marc Haber
Bug #79854 says that I should probably remove INSTALL.gz from my package, presumably because it contains only the Generic Installation Instructions that other packages like irssi and findutils contain as well. Is it allowed or desired to exclude documentation from binary packages that are in the

Re: INSTALL.gz with generic installation instructions

2001-01-06 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20010106T13+0100, Marc Haber wrote: Is it allowed or desired to exclude documentation from binary packages that are in the source? Of course, if done with taste. The INSTALL file almost never should be installed (it would not do any good for it to be installed, since the user does the

Re: seperate dependencies for architectures

2001-01-06 Thread Goswin Brederlow
== Bas Zoetekouw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Goswin! You wrote: Yes its possible and its covered. Try the web pages, I saw it there yesterday. You are mistaken. It is only desribed for build time relationships (Build-Depends, etc). And no, the same procedure

Re: seperate dependencies for architectures

2001-01-06 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Goswin! You wrote: You can set whatever depends during build, just like the ${shlibs:Depends} does. Ah, that's a solution that I didn't think about. Thanks! -- Kind regards, +---+ | Bas Zoetekouw | Si l'on sait

Re: seperate dependencies for architectures

2001-01-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 11:13:43AM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: For my sndconfig package, I would like to declare a different dependecy for the sparc architecture (sndconfig/sparc does not require isapnp, which isn't even available for sparc). Is this possible? I haven't been able to find