Re: Hints on packaging a library

2010-08-28 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 01:35:56AM -0400, Alexandre Quessy wrote: 2010/8/26 Jonas Smedegaard : On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:31:43AM -0400, Alexandre Quessy wrote: The packages I am working and contain libraries on are: scenic, spinframework. I am also interested in packaging lyd. Lyd? What is t

Re: Hints on packaging a library

2010-08-27 Thread Alexandre Quessy
Thanks everyone for your insights! I think I will play with the autotools, libtool and the like a bit to get a better understanding of what can be possible with the Debian tools. 2010/8/26 Jonas Smedegaard : > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:31:43AM -0400, Alexandre Quessy wrote: >> The packages I am w

Re: Hints on packaging a library

2010-08-27 Thread Felipe Sateler
On 26/08/10 12:15, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 17:31:43 (CEST), Alexandre Quessy wrote: > >> There is no debian/shlibs file in the Git repo for the packaging of >> liblo. I guess it's generated by the debian/rules file? > > yes, see the manpage of dh_makeshlibs. The file is

Re: Hints on packaging a library

2010-08-27 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 17:31:43 (CEST), Alexandre Quessy wrote: > There is no debian/shlibs file in the Git repo for the packaging of > liblo. I guess it's generated by the debian/rules file? yes, see the manpage of dh_makeshlibs. The file is generally created during runtime of debian/rules, but

Re: Hints on packaging a library

2010-08-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:31:43AM -0400, Alexandre Quessy wrote: I was wondering if someone had hints on how to package a library. The things I want to package are often distributed with at least an executable which uses them. My approach would be to suggest look at some library packages and

Re: Hints on packaging a library

2010-08-27 Thread Felipe Sateler
On 26/08/10 11:31, Alexandre Quessy wrote: > Hello everyone, > I was wondering if someone had hints on how to package a library. The > things I want to package are often distributed with at least an > executable which uses them. > > The packages I am working and contain libraries on are: scenic, s

Hints on packaging a library

2010-08-26 Thread Alexandre Quessy
Hello everyone, I was wondering if someone had hints on how to package a library. The things I want to package are often distributed with at least an executable which uses them. The packages I am working and contain libraries on are: scenic, spinframework. I am also interested in packaging lyd. F