Re: Interesting delema (xfig, debhelper, and doc-base in frozen slink)

1999-01-23 Thread Joey Hess
Jules Bean wrote: > Now change the doc-base stuff to accord with the potato debhelper (Aside: > it is *evil* to make incompatible changes in debhelper. I hope that was a > mistake by the debhelper maintainer ;) This was not an incompatable change in debhelper, except for in the case where someone

Re: Interesting delema (xfig, debhelper, and doc-base in frozen slink)

1999-01-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Some of us would suggest that you are being unacceptably hampered by so called helper tools, and you may try ro;;ing your own rules file (and not suffer these problems). If interested in example, look at http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/rules/ manoj -- "Intelligence with

Re: Interesting delema (xfig, debhelper, and doc-base in frozen slink)

1999-01-23 Thread Jules Bean
Fork it. Leave the current version (assuming it works, of course), in slink/frozen. Keep a copy of the diff somewhere safe so if a release-critical pops up, you can fix it. Now change the doc-base stuff to accord with the potato debhelper (Aside: it is *evil* to make incompatible changes in debh

Interesting delema (xfig, debhelper, and doc-base in frozen slink)

1999-01-23 Thread Edward Betts
Hello, Allow me to introduce myself, I am the maintainer of xfig. Having been very busy recently i let Roland Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, do an NMU to fix some problems with the package, and I fine job he did too. I downloaded the new debian diff and dsc and used my current source to try and d