Re: How to make a meta package unremovable?

2011-06-12 Thread Erik Schanze (Debian)
Hi Russ, thank you for you response. Am 09.06.2011 23:31, schrieb Russ Allbery: Erik Schanze (Debian) schan...@gmx.de writes: - Upgrade process hangs waiting for the user input This should only happen if you run it interactively. If you don't run it interactively, then it should

Re: How to make a meta package unremovable?

2011-06-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/12/2011 06:00 PM, Erik Schanze (Debian) wrote: Yes, you are right. One disadvantage seems to be solved, but the drawback with PBuilder remains. I could try some exclude options in PBuilder command line, but an other way would be better. Has noone and idea? Or would it better to ask on

Stripping non-free/unnecessary files out of orig.tar.gz

2011-06-12 Thread Anton Martchukov
Hello All. In my package (opencpn) there are couple of binary files without source code/with unfree license that is required only for OS X and Windows builds (those are some dlls and redistributable files). Upstream does like to keep them in original tarball and in the git version control

ia32-libs-dev build dependency vs. Ubuntu

2011-06-12 Thread Gregor Jasny
Hello, I'm the maintainer of v4l-utils and ran into the following problem: The last v4l-utils Debian package added a build dependency to libjpeg, and because I also build 32bit libs on amd64 (for Skype) I had to add an build dependency on ia32-libs-dev (where libjpeg.so lives on Debian). But as

Re: ia32-libs-dev build dependency vs. Ubuntu

2011-06-12 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Gregor Jasny gja...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, I'm the maintainer of v4l-utils and ran into the following problem: The last v4l-utils Debian package added a build dependency to libjpeg, and because I also build 32bit libs on amd64 (for Skype) I had to add