On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 01:25:09AM +, Peter Maydell wrote:
> What should you do if the upstream tarball includes ick like FIFOs,
> random junk files and binaries? I tried just using the true upstream
> tarball but dpkg-buildpackage took exception both to the FIFO in the
> upstream source and to
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 02:13:39PM +, Chris Rutter wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> > As Antti-Juhani says, use lowercase. It doesn't matter what directory
> > the .orig.tar.gz unpacks to; dpkg-source will cope. Don't extract it,
> > rename it, and recreate the .orig.tar
Chris Rutter wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> > As Antti-Juhani says, use lowercase. It doesn't matter what directory
> > the .orig.tar.gz unpacks to; dpkg-source will cope. Don't extract it,
> > rename it, and recreate the .orig.tar.gz just to fix the directory name;
> >
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> As Antti-Juhani says, use lowercase. It doesn't matter what directory
> the .orig.tar.gz unpacks to; dpkg-source will cope. Don't extract it,
> rename it, and recreate the .orig.tar.gz just to fix the directory name;
> it's better to use "pristine sourc
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 03:23:28AM +, Chris Rutter wrote:
> I'm slightly mystified, in my newsbieship, as to what this means.
>
> The source archive is `mLib-1.6.1.tar.gz', and it unpacks into a directory
> called `mLib-1.6.1'. I suppose `dpkg-source' is supposed to rename that
> to `mlib-1.6
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On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 03:23:28AM +, Chris Rutter wrote:
> Now; I was under the impression that all package names had to be lowercase;
> i.e. I would be uploading `libmlib1' and `libmlib-dev'. However, in
> section 4.2.1 of v3.1.0.0 of the Debian Pac
I'm packaging mLib[1], a library much like `glib'.
Now; I was under the impression that all package names had to be lowercase;
i.e. I would be uploading `libmlib1' and `libmlib-dev'. However, in
section 4.2.1 of v3.1.0.0 of the Debian Packaging Manual:
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