On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Joshua Haberman wrote: >... > http://www.reverberate.org/potato/audacity_0.94_i386.deb > http://www.reverberate.org/woody/audacity_0.94_i386.deb > > Lintian complained at the very end of the latter build: > > W: audacity: unknown-section unknown > > Is that a section in the executable file? dh_strip runs successfully > earlier in the build.
You should set the section correctly in debian/control. > Since the program uses both libvorbis, libogg, and wxWindows, libraries > only found in woody, I downloaded the source, compiled them under > potato, and statically linked them for the potato deb. On the project > web page, this is the only deb we advertise, for simplicity's sake (is > there any reason why that would be a problem?) I can't see a problem with this. > What am I to do when there is another upstream release? Should I simply > copy the "debian" directory out of the old tree and into the new, update > the changelog, and rebuild? What about an incremental release, to fix a > bug on my (wearing the package maintainer's hat) part? Am I supposed to > make a diff of my changes? There's some documentation at [1] that is worth reading. Especially the "Debian New Maintainers' Guide" explains things like updating a package very good. > Lastly, what do I need to take into consideration to accomidate for > people who wish to do a source build? How would I note that to build on > potato, you must manually download and compile wxWindows and libvorbis? This should be visible from the build dependencies in debian/control. > Thanks for your help, Joshua HTH, Adrian [1] http://www.debian.org/devel -- A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Ghandi
