lintian question

1999-03-21 Thread Will Lowe
Can anybody tell me what this means, and what to do about it? W: rosegarden: shared-lib-without-dependency-information usr/X11R6/lib/rosegarden/petal/Petal.so E: rosegarden: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/X11R6/lib/rosegarden/petal/Petal.so

Re: /usr/bin or /usr/bin/X11

1999-03-21 Thread Gus
On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 05:44:11PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > > debmake decided to run configure --prefix=/usr, should i add a > > --bindir=/usr/bin/X11 argument to it? > use "--prefix=/usr/X11R6", and that'll get rid of the need for --bindir > and all the rest. but that would put data in /usr/X11

Re: /usr/bin or /usr/bin/X11

1999-03-21 Thread Joey Hess
> i got an identical menu.ex from both methods, except that debmake > produced: > > cat tmp/DEBIAN/postinst > #!/bin/sh -e > if [ -x /usr/bin/update-menus ] ; then update-menus ; fi > > whereas dh_make produced one that did this (from memory): > #!/bin/sh > if test -x /usr/bin/update-menus ; then

Re: lintian question

1999-03-21 Thread James LewisMoss
> On Sat, 20 Mar 1999 19:46:19 -0500 (EST), Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Will> Can anybody tell me what this means, and what to do about it? Will> W: rosegarden: shared-lib-without-dependency-information Will> usr/X11R6/lib/rosegarden/petal/Petal.so Will> E: rosegarden: shli

Re: /usr/bin or /usr/bin/X11

1999-03-21 Thread Will Lowe
> but that would put data in /usr/X11R6/share and that would be bad.. Oh. Right. I'm facing a similar problem with Rosegarden. Probably I'll have to edit the configure.in to install that stuff in /usr/share instead. > whereas dh_make produced one that did this (from memory): > #!/bin/sh > if te

Re: lintian question

1999-03-21 Thread Carey Evans
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anybody tell me what this means, and what to do about it? > > W: rosegarden: shared-lib-without-dependency-information > usr/X11R6/lib/rosegarden/petal/Petal.so If the code in Petal.so uses any C library calls, it has to say so for Debian. (So

Re: /usr/bin or /usr/bin/X11

1999-03-21 Thread Julian Gilbey
> On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 05:44:11PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > > > debmake decided to run configure --prefix=/usr, should i add a > > > --bindir=/usr/bin/X11 argument to it? > > use "--prefix=/usr/X11R6", and that'll get rid of the need for --bindir > > and all the rest. > > but that would put da

Re: How to make a new release .deb?

1999-03-21 Thread Remco van de Meent
Josip Rodin wrote: > > $ cd package-1.1 > > $ zcat ../package_1.0-1.diff.gz | patch -p1 > > $ chmod +x debian/rules > > > > just edit the changelog > > BTW quickest editing of changelog is done with `dch -v uv-dr` where uv is > upstream version and dr is Debian revision (1.1-1 in this case). I'

Re: /usr/bin or /usr/bin/X11

1999-03-21 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 10:16:30PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > > whereas dh_make produced one that did this (from memory): > > #!/bin/sh > > if test -x /usr/bin/update-menus ; then update-menus ; fi > > if test -x /usr/bin/update-menus ; then update-menus ; fi > Whoa. That's weird. it's the progra

application-specific shared libs?

1999-03-21 Thread Will Lowe
> First one: it means you have a shared library in your package without > providing dependency information about it. In this case it shouldn't > cause a problem because the shared object looks like it'll only be > used by rosegarden. Aha. Fixed, thanks. Can anybody give me a rundown on the poli

Re: lintian question

1999-03-21 Thread Will Lowe
> First one: it means you have a shared library in your package without > providing dependency information about it. In this case it shouldn't How do I go about creaing this info? > Second one: shared library objects are compiled in a special way > (command line option -fPIC) so that they can be

Re: /usr/bin or /usr/bin/X11

1999-03-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Mar 21, 1999 at 09:14:32AM +1100, Gus wrote: > i've got an X program that i'm packaging.. at present it only has an X > interface, but that will change in later versions.. > > debmake decided to run configure --prefix=/usr, should i add a > --bindir=/usr/bin/X11 argument to it? > > (or s