Re: Some questions about patching source

2002-11-08 Thread Simon Richter
Stephen, On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 04:43:37PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > Define "other things". As long as it is headers, the best solution would > > > be to ask the xscreensaver maintainer whether he could make a -dev > > > package with the headers that you can build-depend on. Hrm, what abo

Re: Some questions about patching source

2002-11-08 Thread Simon Richter
Stephen, On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 04:43:37PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > Define "other things". As long as it is headers, the best solution would > > > be to ask the xscreensaver maintainer whether he could make a -dev > > > package with the headers that you can build-depend on. Hrm, what abo

Re: Some questions about patching source

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Stephen Gran said: > This one time, at band camp, Simon Richter said: > > Stephen, > > > > On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:21:07PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > I am putting together a .deb of cosmos (the xscreensaver module) for > > > personal consumption - I don't thin

Re: Some questions about patching source

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Stephen Gran said: > This one time, at band camp, Simon Richter said: > > Stephen, > > > > On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:21:07PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > I am putting together a .deb of cosmos (the xscreensaver module) for > > > personal consumption - I don't thin

Re: Some questions about patching source

2002-11-06 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Junichi Uekawa said: > > The plan I have come up with is to put all the files it needs into a > > debian/patches directory, and alter the Makefile accordingly. This > > works just fine, although it makes the resulting .diff about twice the > > size of the original sour

Re: Some questions about patching source

2002-11-06 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Simon Richter said: > Stephen, > > On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:21:07PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > I am putting together a .deb of cosmos (the xscreensaver module) for > > personal consumption - I don't think it's suitable to go into Debian > > proper, as upstream se

Re: Some questions about patching source

2002-11-06 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> The plan I have come up with is to put all the files it needs into a > debian/patches directory, and alter the Makefile accordingly. This > works just fine, although it makes the resulting .diff about twice the > size of the original source code, and it means it need to be redone > every time th

Re: Some questions about patching source

2002-11-06 Thread Simon Richter
Stephen, On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:21:07PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > I am putting together a .deb of cosmos (the xscreensaver module) for > personal consumption - I don't think it's suitable to go into Debian > proper, as upstream seems to have disappeared (at any rate, the site > where I orig

Re: Some questions about patching source

2002-11-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:21:07PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > The problem I am having with putting it together is that in order for it > to build from source, it needs a compiled xscreensaver source tree to pull > some headers and other things from. You may want to look into apt-src; there is s

Some questions about patching source

2002-11-06 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, I am putting together a .deb of cosmos (the xscreensaver module) for personal consumption - I don't think it's suitable to go into Debian proper, as upstream seems to have disappeared (at any rate, the site where I originally downloaded the source is gone, and google returns only old hi

Re: Some questions about patching source

2002-11-06 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Junichi Uekawa said: > > The plan I have come up with is to put all the files it needs into a > > debian/patches directory, and alter the Makefile accordingly. This > > works just fine, although it makes the resulting .diff about twice the > > size of the original sour

Re: Some questions about patching source

2002-11-06 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Simon Richter said: > Stephen, > > On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:21:07PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > I am putting together a .deb of cosmos (the xscreensaver module) for > > personal consumption - I don't think it's suitable to go into Debian > > proper, as upstream se

Re: Some questions about patching source

2002-11-06 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> The plan I have come up with is to put all the files it needs into a > debian/patches directory, and alter the Makefile accordingly. This > works just fine, although it makes the resulting .diff about twice the > size of the original source code, and it means it need to be redone > every time th

Re: Some questions about patching source

2002-11-06 Thread Simon Richter
Stephen, On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:21:07PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > I am putting together a .deb of cosmos (the xscreensaver module) for > personal consumption - I don't think it's suitable to go into Debian > proper, as upstream seems to have disappeared (at any rate, the site > where I orig

Re: Some questions about patching source

2002-11-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:21:07PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > The problem I am having with putting it together is that in order for it > to build from source, it needs a compiled xscreensaver source tree to pull > some headers and other things from. You may want to look into apt-src; there is s

Some questions about patching source

2002-11-06 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, I am putting together a .deb of cosmos (the xscreensaver module) for personal consumption - I don't think it's suitable to go into Debian proper, as upstream seems to have disappeared (at any rate, the site where I originally downloaded the source is gone, and google returns only old hi