Re: basics: easiest way to create new debian version?

2000-02-23 Thread Will Lowe
> Does it handle pristine upstream source? Yes, via the cvs-upgrade program. See /usr/doc/cvs-buildpackage/HOWTO.gz Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [E

Re: basics: easiest way to create new debian version?

2000-02-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 02:41:50PM +0100, Roland Rosenfeld wrote: > tree. The only disadvantage of cvs-buildpackage is, that it has > problems with links in the upstream source package. Does it handle pristine upstream source? -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.f

Re: basics: easiest way to create new debian version?

2000-02-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 02:29:17PM +0200, Edvard Majakari wrote: > > "AK" == Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > AK> I'm assuming you mean packaging a new upstream release, not > AK> creating a new Debian revision of the same upstream source. > > I meant both :) Making

Re: need to force dinstall to use a new .orig.tar.gz

2000-02-23 Thread Will Lowe
> Your .changes file must say you are uploading the .orig.tar.gz > else dinstall has no reason to look for it. I think the option to > dpkg-buildpackage is -sa or similar. Indeed, this was the problem. I solved the problem by passing the -sa option into cvs-buildpackage, which passed it on to dpk

Re: basics: easiest way to create new debian version?

2000-02-23 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > The natural way of doing this is unpacking the new upstream source, > and patching it with the latest Debian diff, and adding a new > changelog entry. The "uupdate" program (in devscripts) automates > this. You then need to resolve any conflicts

Re: basics: easiest way to create new debian version?

2000-02-23 Thread Edvard Majakari
> "AK" == Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AK> I'm assuming you mean packaging a new upstream release, not AK> creating a new Debian revision of the same upstream source. I meant both :) AK> The natural way of doing this is unpacking the new upstream AK> source, and pa

Re: basics: easiest way to create new debian version?

2000-02-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 12:54:48PM +0200, Edvard Majakari wrote: > how to create a new debian version out of the already debianized > package - so far I've created package from the scratch every time (of > course, some of the old debian files like rules, dirs etc can often be > used as is with the

basics: easiest way to create new debian version?

2000-02-23 Thread Edvard Majakari
Ok, here we go.. the problem: I see the new Debian package maintainers guide quite a good document, but it isn't obvious (at least to me :) how to create a new debian version out of the already debianized package - so far I've created package from the scratch every time (of course, some of the ol

Re: need to force dinstall to use a new .orig.tar.gz

2000-02-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 03:09:19PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > I uploaded a new version of fsviewer a while back, and got this from > dinstall: > > > Rejected: md5sum for > > dists/potato/main/source/x11/fsviewer_0.2.3.orig.tar.gz doesn't match > > fsviewer_0.2.3-2.dsc. Rejected: md5sum for > > di

mktclapp sponsor request

2000-02-23 Thread Eduardo Ochs
I've packed Mktclapp for Debian. From the control file: Mktclapp is a utility that helps you mix C/C++ with Tcl/Tk. Mktclapp was written by the same author of ET, and it has the same goals of ET but it is simpler and has a much cleaner interface. Its author encourages all ET users

Re: prerm failed for scanlogd?

2000-02-23 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Vogt wrote: > If there is no prerm, it just uses this one. But this is sh, I use tcsh. > My solution is to add a prerm file, that has a "#!/bin/sh" on top. > What do you think? Is this a bug in debhelper? Or is it documented somewhere? Debhelper adds "#/bin/sh -e" to the top of any script