Re: error when building package

2001-06-29 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 06/29/01 Etienne Grossmann wrote: > dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control' near line 6 > package `bloksi': > `Depends' field, missing package name, or garbage where package name expected > dh_builddeb: command returned error code > make: *** [binary-indep] Error 1 > > It

Re: 1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-29 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 06/29/01 Etienne Grossmann wrote: > this is a near-copy of a mail I sent yesterday to debian-perl. I > think it is relevant to this list. > > I just managed to build a working .deb from a perl program (a game > that uses gtk and gnome), after a fair amount of cruft (*). > > I build it w/

Re: error when building package

2001-06-29 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 06/29/01 Etienne Grossmann wrote: > dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control' near line 6 package >`bloksi': > `Depends' field, missing package name, or garbage where package name expected > dh_builddeb: command returned error code > make: *** [binary-indep] Error 1 > > It

Re: 1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-29 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 06/29/01 Etienne Grossmann wrote: > this is a near-copy of a mail I sent yesterday to debian-perl. I > think it is relevant to this list. > > I just managed to build a working .deb from a perl program (a game > that uses gtk and gnome), after a fair amount of cruft (*). > > I build it w

Re: Fwd: ITP: glib2, gtk2, inti

2001-06-07 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 06/05/01 Michèl Alexandre Salim wrote: > > Please LART upstream heavily and give the packages a > > proper name. That > > tradition has done it wrong is no reason to continue > > doing it the > > wrong way. The version numbering used upstream is completely reasonable: check the archives for th

Re: Fwd: ITP: glib2, gtk2, inti

2001-06-06 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 06/05/01 Michèl Alexandre Salim wrote: > > Please LART upstream heavily and give the packages a > > proper name. That > > tradition has done it wrong is no reason to continue > > doing it the > > wrong way. The version numbering used upstream is completely reasonable: check the archives for t

Re: Package checking

2001-02-23 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 02/23/01 Sam TH wrote: > > It's missing build-dependencies. > > Added. However, is there a good way to check build-depends, or do you > just have to guess? There are some tools discussed on debian-devel that help finding dependencies, search the archive for them. The most predictable way, tho

Re: Package checking

2001-02-23 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 02/23/01 Sam TH wrote: > > It's missing build-dependencies. > > Added. However, is there a good way to check build-depends, or do you > just have to guess? There are some tools discussed on debian-devel that help finding dependencies, search the archive for them. The most predictable way, th

Re: Package checking

2001-02-23 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 02/23/01 Sam TH wrote: > I'm an illustrious member of the NM queue, and have completed a > package that I would be very grateful if people would check for me, to > make sure that I haven't missed anything. It produces no errors or > warnings with lintian. > > The package is uf-view, and it's

Re: Package checking

2001-02-23 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 02/23/01 Sam TH wrote: > I'm an illustrious member of the NM queue, and have completed a > package that I would be very grateful if people would check for me, to > make sure that I haven't missed anything. It produces no errors or > warnings with lintian. > > The package is uf-view, and it's

Re: Packages with symlinks and CVS

1999-05-07 Thread Paolo Molaro
On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 01:13:04AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > That's OK, except that this package currently has 258 symlinks, and > both the number and details are likely to change on a fairly regular > basis. The thought of keeping that up to date is quite terrifying. > There must surely be a