Re: Patching the upstream sources, and the debian diff

2004-12-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Alejandro Exojo wrote: > because upstream used automake 1.7.6 and unstable now haves 1.7.9 (in > automake1.7). This differences are now added to the diff.gz, but this doesn't > sounds to me the proper way. There is no "proper" way. You have two good choices, and one bad choi

Re: Patching the upstream sources, and the debian diff

2004-12-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:56:28AM +0100, Alejandro Exojo wrote: > Hi. Good evening, > However, looking at other packages, I see huge diffs with more than 300K, and > including lots of generated stuff. So here are my questions: Often, the only useful thing the .diff.gz does is to create debian/.

Patching the upstream sources, and the debian diff

2004-12-26 Thread Alejandro Exojo
Hi. I've been working this days in Debian packaging, and it was the first time I needed to patch the upstream sources, more especifically, the Makefile.am. I studied the patching stuff from other packages, and then, added the relevant lines to my debian/rules, and the patches to debian/patches/

Re: libraries without version in SONAME

2004-12-26 Thread radus
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 12:36:44AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hello >> >> I was looking into packaging a software that has a soname: >> SONAME libyate.so >> but no version, and also upstream doesn't want any version on this library. >> During dh_shlibdeps i get : >> dpkg-shlibdeps:

Re: libraries without version in SONAME

2004-12-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 12:36:44AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello > > I was looking into packaging a software that has a soname: > SONAME libyate.so > but no version, and also upstream doesn't want any version on this library. > During dh_shlibdeps i get : > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning

libraries without version in SONAME

2004-12-26 Thread radus
Hello I was looking into packaging a software that has a soname: SONAME libyate.so but no version, and also upstream doesn't want any version on this library. During dh_shlibdeps i get : dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of libyate.so not recognized is this a problem because of the missing SO

maint-guide update (pbuilder, linda, orig.tar.gz etc.)

2004-12-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I have been merging many BTS reports on maint-guide per Josip's loose approval. Can anyone look into my changes to proofread it (Debian site has been somewhat updated but I have more changes committed now. Now FAQ, NM, linda, pbuilder etc. are all mentioned. So you need to wait 1 day or so to