On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 03:13:03PM +0800, Paul Harris wrote: > i have agreed to take VRweb off Fabien Ninoles' hands, and have been > successful in making it work under my Potato system! woo hoo! > > however, i have no idea what the next steps are: > > - What is the technique to rediff a package for the debian diff?
What do you mean? > - Why is dpkg-source complaining about: > $ dpkg-source -x vrweb_1.5-2.dsc > dpkg-source: error: Expected ^@@ in line 679 of diff > is this some sort of bug? seemed to work earlier... i just untared and > patched it myself How did you make the diff? You should have did this: fakeroot debian/rules clean; cd .. ; dpkg-source -b vrweb-<version>/ > - Where are the FMs on the debian/rules stuff? I'd just like to make sure > it works after i get that diff thing going. The Packaging Manual. Basically, you need these rules: clean, binary, binary-arch, binary-indep. > - How do I accept vrweb as mine? Do I need to get a sponser or something? Set the Maintainer: field in the control file. If you aren't a registered developer, yes, you need a sponsor. > - How do I wack it on the debian mirror and all that? If you're developer, use dupload(1), if not, sponsor will do that for you. > look at fixing bug #29078: package vrweb depends on library libg++272. is > this really a bad thing? Yes, that's an obsolete library. > * libg++.so.2.7.2 => /usr/lib/libg++.so.2.7.2 (0x400d6000) > * libstdc++.so.2.7.2 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.7.2 (0x4010e000) > and mine (the working! one): > * libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 => /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 > (0x400d6000) Your one is okay. Or even better, libstdc++2.10. > the *s indicate difference between the two. now, why doesn't the old one > work? the libraries they were compiled for may be different, but won't it > work with the old libc stuff installed? should i even bother thinking > about this since the new compile works? i only ask as other people seem to > have problems with their old libc5 stuff... maybe the same problem is > suffered here... would this help anyone to debug it? As long as it works with newest non-obsolete libraries, you shouldn't care much :) BTW, these questions ought to be asked on debian-mentors list, debian-devel is inappropriate. -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name