Re: build bug or change?

1998-04-08 Thread Michael Borella
This worked. Great. But isn't this an ugly fix? Perhaps there is a problem with debstd. -Mike > On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 04:49:48PM -0500, Michael Borella wrote: > > > > When I do an "sudo build" on a debianized directory, I get the following > > > > debstd README > > --- debst

Re: closing old bugs

1998-04-08 Thread James Troup
Hugo Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Damjan Marion wrote: > > > Can someone tell me what I must do to close old bugs, after > > uploading new upstream version. I am a new maintainer of that > > package. > > To close bug#n: > > email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > in the bod

Re: closing old bugs

1998-04-08 Thread Hugo Haas
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Damjan Marion wrote: > Can someone tell me what I must do to close old bugs, after > uploading new upstream version. I am a new maintainer of that > package. To close bug#n: email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the body : close n or email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you cho

closing old bugs

1998-04-08 Thread Damjan Marion
Can someone tell me what I must do to close old bugs, after uploading new upstream version. I am a new maintainer of that package. Thanks, -- Damjan Marion [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: build bug or change?

1998-04-08 Thread Damjan Marion
On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 04:49:48PM -0500, Michael Borella wrote: > > When I do an "sudo build" on a debianized directory, I get the following > > debstd README > --- debstd processing for Linux -- > -- Installing Documentation > -- Looking for manpages in sourcepackage >

orig source

1998-04-08 Thread Jeff Shilt
I'm working on packaging FPK-pascal compiler, and I was was wondering what exactly is meant by the original source. The sources for fpc come with source for linux, dos, amiga, etc. Plus, the makefiles in the subdirectories need to be modified to add $(DESTDIR) and a main Makefile created.

Re: build bug or change?

1998-04-08 Thread James Troup
Michael Borella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No Packages specified in debian/control ^^^ This is the problem, presumably; either debstd is hosed, or your debian/control is hosed. What's your debian/control? -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: build bug or change?

1998-04-08 Thread Michael Borella
That doesn't seem to work either. This is weird because about a week ago, I had no problem building packages. Now I can't get any to work. I did upgrabe a few times, so perhaps there is a bug in debstd? Or is there something obvious that I'm missing? Once again, here's the error output (whi

Skeleton maintainer scripts (revised)

1998-04-08 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
Okay, here's a revision. First, some text to go with the scripts, then the scripts themselves. Feel free to make any revisions you want. They're probably still a bit verbose, but I don't see that that's a problem. I don't think there's much duplication, so trimming it would probablby remove usef

Re: build bug or change?

1998-04-08 Thread Adam P. Harris
Michael Borella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I do an "sudo build" on a debianized directory, I get the following [...] > dpkg-gencontrol: failure: cannot open new output control file > `debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control.new': No such file or directory > make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2 > > This occ