Re: vector format and freesofware

On 09/20/2012 05:30 PM, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > Dear all, > > Which of vector format of pic are FOSS? such as svg? > > --mohsen > > The SVG format is an open standard and is internally formatted as human-readable text. It is readable not only by a lot of graphics software, but now all th

getting packages into Debian

For most of my software, I roll my own debs and make them publicly available, including all the debian source files. I try to follow my maintainer's guide and debian policy closely while making them, and they are usually lintian approved (except for the occasional wish list item). My question is: a

*.dirs and *.install files

Hello. I've created a number of Debs for single-binary packages in the past, but now I am getting into packaging libraries. For the most part it has not been difficult to figure out how to package a library, but I am not quite clear on a certain point: could some one explain to me what are the prec

Some questions related to signing

A few humble questions related to packaging signing: * I make binary deb packages available for my projects from my Web site, but I also wanted to make the deb source files available, so that people can wrap their own binary debs for other architectures. I know that they need the *.orig.tar.gz fil

installing desktop file and icon

Hi. I have source code that comes with a freedesktop-style .desktop file and svg icon. I know they need to go in /usr/share/applications and /usr/share/pixmaps (respectively). In the deb package which I am making, what should I put in the deb's "rules" file so that these are properly installed? --

installing to the games directory

Thank you everyone for the help. Hopefully I can get away with asking two questions in one day: I was able to successfully package a game inside a .deb; however, lintian is giving me the error: "package-section-games-but-contains-no-game" and the binary is being installed to /usr/bin instead of /us

Signing a .deb later?

Hi. I'm new to this list so let me give some introduction, to provide some context for my questions: To be up front, I'm not a regular Debian user... I used to be years ago, but then I fell in love with Gentoo and the whole source-based distro paradigm. However, I run Debian in a VM through qemu-kv