Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-08 Thread Terry Burton
Hi Alexander. I have created a trival Debian repository. The relevant line for your sources.list is: deb-src http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/files/debiansrc / At the moment I am working through some problems with image generation using latex2html, which is the first step towards

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-07 Thread Alexander List
Terry Burton wrote: New files available at http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/files/debiansrc. Seems pretty OK now. I would prefer not to have to regenerate the documentation from TeX for the timebeing since it relies on TeX modules that are not yet part of Debian. Hopefully future

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 09:53:51AM +0100, Terry Burton wrote: Hi, Hello, Would people please examine the package and tell me what problems exist. You can view the files at http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/files/debiansrc After a very brief look, I can only say I saw a lot of

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Ben Finney
On 06-Sep-2005, Terry Burton wrote: I'm currently packaging the Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript project that I have written. Yay! I like this program, thanks. Debian Policy mandates that programs have a manpage. Since this is a PostScript resource (similar to a shared library) does

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Paul Wise
Hi, After I have got the source package into good shape, do you have any advise on finding a package sponser? Any volunteers. If you don't find a sponsor, have a read of womble's excellent debian-mentors FAQ[0] (recently updated) and add your sponsorship request to sponsors.debian.net so it

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Terry Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would people please examine the package and tell me what problems exist. You can view the files at http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/files/debiansrc The debian/rules is very bloated, please remove everything which is not needed and not mandated

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Terry Burton
Hi, I've removed the Makefile and made use of dh_install. I've also slimmed the debian/rules file by removing the commented lines and dh_* rules that seem redundant, as suggested. I would appreciate it if someone could offer any assistance in further tidying this up. It is now also building for

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Eric
Hi, Hi, I've removed the Makefile and made use of dh_install. I've also slimmed the debian/rules file by removing the commented lines and dh_* rules that seem redundant, as suggested. I would appreciate it if someone could offer any assistance in further tidying this up. Generally, you just

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Terry Burton
Okay, next round :-) Please recheck files at http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/files/debiansrc. Target is now /usr/share/libpostscriptbarcode, not /usr/lib/libpostscriptbarcode. Created debian/install file to simplify debian/rules. Added -X option to dh_installdocs to prevent

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, sorry for this, but I think another round might be required: 1. move sample.ps, barcode_with_sample.ps, docs/* from debian/install to debian/docs. 2. I think you should just remove the Depends line (as far as I understand the thing you could just cat barcode_with_sample.ps /dev/lp0 and it

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Terry Burton
Hi, Thanks for all of your assistance Eric. New files available at http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/files/debiansrc. Documentation files moved from debian/install to debian/docs. Depends removed. I would prefer not to have to regenerate the documentation from TeX for the timebeing

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Sven Mueller
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote on 06/09/2005 12:29: There is no Debian package without a Depends line, as you always need something else to properly use it. This is not true. For an example look at busybox-static gcc-4.0-base or libc6: aptitude show busybox-static gcc-4.0-base libc6 cu, sven

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: There is no Debian package without a Depends line, as you always need something else to properly use it. Actually, there are over 1500 of them. Some packages survive with the Essentials :) $ grep-dctrl -c -FDepends -e '^$' \

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Joe Smith
I would prefer not to have to regenerate the documentation from TeX for the timebeing since it relies on TeX modules that are not yet part of Debian. Hopefully future Debian releases of the PSTricks packages will remedy this situation making this a sensible option. It would also seem a bit