Ole Streicher writes:
> First of all: what is the difference between the "Depends" field in the
> control file and the "shlibs" file? Should they contain the same
> (library) dependencies?
shlibs will be used when packages linking against your lib get built,
and the contents of it will be used f
Ole Streicher writes:
> Gergely Nagy writes:
>> Or, to put it in other words: Depends lists the packages your library
>> depends on, shlibs lists the libs that packages built against your lib
>> should depend on.
>
> So, this means that in the usual cases (like my
Tristan Lelong writes:
> http://debian.libroxml.net/libroxml_2.1.1-1.dsc
Cheers! My comments & answers are below:
> My comments:
>
> * I didn't used quilt for patches because there is currently no
> difference between the debian package and the original tarball except
> the debian directory in
Charles Plessy writes:
> Le Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 01:54:51PM +0200, Gergely Nagy a écrit :
>>
>> zlib uses versioned symbols, a similar, but more... advanced
>> thing. Perhaps the manual should be updated to point to a simple package
>> that does use shlibs still.
>
Sven Joachim writes:
> On 2011-09-24 10:16 +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:
>
>> If a symbol is removed in a later version
>> (and the soname is not bumped, due to a mistake), the above method will
>> result in a library that, when installed, will break any app using th
Leonardo Marín writes:
> "Expiration 72h"
> * decibel-audio-player_1.08-1_i386.changes
> --> http://paste.debian.net/134175/
>
> * decibel-audio-player_1.08-1.dsc
> --> http://paste.debian.net/134174/
>
> * decibel-audio-player_1.08-1_i386.build
> --> http://paste.debian.net/134176/
Something dg
Jakub Wilk writes:
> (I don't intend to sponsor this package and this review is not
> comprehensive.)
>
> * Leonardo Marín , 2011-10-04, 17:12:
>>Vcs-Browser:
>>http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/python-apps/packages/decibel-audio-player/trunk/
>>SVN: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/python-apps/packages/dec
Boris Pek writes:
> This package contains small count of source files. So it don't required a lot
> of time for review.
Didn't have time for a through review yet, but a couple of things I'd
like to comment on:
* debian/copyright appears to be a mix between free-form and DEP-5. I
would recomm
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Boris Pek writes:
>>* debian/copyright appears to be a mix between free-form and DEP-5. I
>> would recommend using either, but not a mix between the two, as that
>> looks just awkward.
>
> I have not aimed to support DEP5. Such form of writing j
Boris Pek writes:
[debian/copyright; orig.tar.bz2]
> I really don't understand that do you want. Present information is enough
> to make own tarball.
The current version in git is perfect. Thanks!
>>> So .orig.tar.bz2 formed in such way:
>>> https://github.com/tehnick/deb_packages/blob/master/D
(IANADDY applies)
Boris Pek writes:
> Direct link:
>
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/leechcraft/leechcraft_0.4.90-1.dsc
A couple of notes and random nitpickings:
* The package description of leechcraft-incubator suggests it is a meta
package, yet, it only depends on ${misc:
Rodolfo kix Garcia writes:
> Hi!
>
> now in mentors.d.n are only packages that needs a sponsor. Is this
> normal? then, the column about "needs a sponsor" is not needed.
My understanding is, that it can be used to request reviews aswell: when
a package is mostly done, but is not ready for upload
Mathieu Malaterre writes:
> dpkg-source: info: applying fix_alphacomp.patch
> fakeroot debian/rules clean
> dh /usr/share/dpkg/buildflags.mk --buildsystem=cmake --parallel
> dh: Unknown sequence /usr/share/dpkg/buildflags.mk (choose from:
> binary binary-arch binary-indep build build-arch build-
Jakub Wilk writes:
> Just enumerate all the targets explicitly, and the problem will go away.
Actually, this. Please disregard my suggestions in my other mail.
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Alex Chiang writes:
> The lowest common denominator is patch(1).
>
> So all you really need to know how to do is use the upstream's
> tool to obtain the source:
>
> git clone
> bzr branch
> svn co
> etc.
Even better, at least in Debian's case, there's debcheckout(1). It h
Tony Houghton writes:
> I'm a bit confused about the Vcs fields in Control files. Many projects
> have the upstream code and debian packaging maintained separately and
> I'm not entirely sure what you're supposed to do with the Vcs fields in
> that case. Should they point to upstream or the packa
Daniel Stender writes:
> The developer's have marked the current beta of Gummi 0.6 (split-panel LaTeX
> editor) as 0.5.999,
> though not officially presented but available as svn snapshots.
>
> Question: Me as maintainer I would like to support the development of Gummi,
> wouldn't it be a good
Mathias Ertl writes:
> There is a package I desperately want in Debian and there already is an ITP
> for it that is almost a year old. There wasn't any activity on it except that
> the author reverted the automatic ITP -> RFP conversion after 6 monts of
> inactivity. I did write to the bug-aut
Mathias Ertl writes:
> On Tuesday, November 08, 2011 12:37:17 PM Guido van Steen wrote:
>> You could also offer to co-maintain...
>
> I did offer to co-maintain. I will however give the author another week or
> two
> and try another email in a week or so.
>
> On Tuesday, November 08, 2011 12:36
Mathieu Malaterre writes:
> buildd can make the decision to run build-indep, I am ok with it.
> What I am not ok with, is when buildd are setup to run build-indep
> rules, but do not respect B-D-I !
> That does not make any sense for me.
>
> Anyway I have merged B-D-I into B-D, as suggested. And
Nicolas Bourdaud writes:
> On 14/11/2011 14:32, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
>> Without -Wall you won't get some of the most "critical" warnings.
>> A package should really not be built without at least -Wall.
>
> I understand, and I think it is a pity that some software produce way
> too many warning
Dennis van Dok writes:
> I have a question regarding configuration file changes.
[..]
> The way I've addressed this is by adding a special marker containing a
> warning near the top of the configuration file ('warning: this file is
> maintained by foo-configure; remove this line when editing.'),
Dennis van Dok writes:
> On 23-11-11 14:34, Arno Töll wrote:
>> please mind the exact wording here. A "configuration file" is not
>> the same as a "conffile" in Debian. Note, you are not allowed to
>> modify a conffile at any time.
> In the context of the maintainer scripts, I take it. ;-)
>
> [.
Josue Abarca writes:
> Wences Arana and I intend to adopt planner, so now we are looking for
> a sponsor for our package "planner".
FYI to anyone who might be looking at this: I intend to review the
adopted packages, and sponsor it too (unless I find something terrible,
but judging by the RFS, I
Mathieu Malaterre writes:
> I would like to know if there is an easy way to fill in the
> "Provides: " line in a d/control file ?
>
> Here is the situation, one of my package is activiz.net a C# binding
> to a C++ library VTK. VTK 5.8 was uploaded to unstable today. I need
> therefore to tran
Mathieu Malaterre writes:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote:
>> What exactly would you want to put in the Provides field in this case?
>
> Right now it would be something like:
>
> Package: libactiviz.net-cil
> Provides: libactiviz.net${`apt-cache p
Josue Abarca writes:
> Wences Arana and I intend to adopt planner, so now we are looking for
> a sponsor for our package "planner".
[...]
> The package is lintian (pedantic) clean.
Fortunately for me, it's not algernon-clean just yet!
docs
Why are you installing the AUTHORS file into the
Thanks for the answers!
Unfortunately, I ran into an issue - possibly upstream -, which worries
me a bit: I have a .planner file, created with an older version
(whatever version is in Ubuntu Lucid), which doesn't load correctly with
the updated package. By doesn't load correctly, I mean that there
Ole Wolf writes:
> I'm getting some lintian warnings on one of my packages (at
> http://mentors.debian.net/package/nemid):
>
> W: nemid: postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig
> W: nemid: postrm-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig
Lintian overrides are what you seek. Since you're using debhelper, se
Ole Wolf writes:
> I could perhaps download the library and include it in the "nemid"
> package, and the first versions of "nemid" actually did just that.
> However, I've been unable to get a response from the company that provides
> the application about the distribution rights of their software
"Desmond O. Chang" writes:
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "stumpwm".
Just an FYI for others: I'll be looking at this package tonight, and
sponsor it if all goes well (together with clfswm).
Also, a request to people posting sponsor requests: would it be possible
t
Björn Esser writes:
> How do I use/create those overrides?
I would suggest looking at the dh(1) man page, it has plenty of
examples.
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"Desmond O. Chang" writes:
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "stumpwm".
Looks fine on a first look, except that debian/copyright points to an
unversioned GPL. While that won't stop me from uploading, it'd be nice
if that could be changed to point to GPL-2 in a future upload.
(I can al
"Desmond O. Chang" writes:
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "clfswm".
Looks fine, and will upload as-is. A couple of suggestions for the
future, however:
You could simplify debian/rules by using an .install file to install
/usr/bin/clfswm: Move debian/clfswm.sh to, say debian/bin/clf
"Desmond O. Chang" writes:
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "stumpwm".
Uploaded, along with clfswm.
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Marco Balmer writes:
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "couriergrey".
[...]
> couriergrey - Mail filter interface of Courier-MTA to support greylisting
[...]
> dget -x
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/couriergrey/couriergrey_0.2.2-1.dsc
I had a look at the packaging, b
Josue Abarca writes:
>> If I recompile the version in Debian to get rid of the python << 2.7
>> conflict, that can load the file, and display the Gantt chart correctly,
>> but your prepared version can't.
>
> Until now, i have not been able to reproduce the bug, but my test files are
> not
> ver
"Desmond O. Chang" writes:
> Gergely Nagy writes:
>
>> "Desmond O. Chang" writes:
>
>> There's also one other thing though (still not a blocker, but worth
>> mentioning): I installed the stumpwm currently in sid, and when I tried
>&g
Dmitry Smirnov writes:
>> Why are you using python-gobject-dev from stable?, are you trying to
>> make a backport for stable?.
>>
>> As always the distribution for new (and new versions of) packages
>> should be unstable (or even experimental), but of course I am willing
>> to help if you are tr
Marco Balmer writes:
> Dear Gergely, debian-mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "couriergrey".
Will have a look this week. Sorry for the delays.
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Marco Balmer writes:
>> Fixed/uploaded all of your remarks, may you have a look again? Thank you!
>
> By the way I've added Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser fields and fixed a
> bug in packaging.
I had another look, at long last, and spotted a thing or two:
* [minor] There's a thinko in debian/REA
Adam Borowski writes:
> Let's add some WTF to FTPmasters' day! :)
This package is a perfect fit for a personal archive, but if anyone
wants to upload it: you're in for a race for the fastest REJECT ever.
We have enough WTFs a day already, thankyouverymuch. But I'm in a good
mood today, so here'
Adam Borowski writes:
>> * debian/rules without arguments does not behave sanely:
>>
>> make: *** No targets. Stop.
>>
>> It should at least do something, but "no targets" is unexpected.
ACK. This wasn't a REJECT-worthy reason alone, many packages fail in
similar ways, but if you're makin
Mathieu Malaterre writes:
> I am trying to skip the dh_compress steps for the following package:
>
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/tbb-examples/filelist
>
> Instead of manually checking all possible combinations (-Xcpp
> -Xpbxproj, -Xvcproj ... ), I thought I could just do:
>
> $ cat deb
Hi!
I have recently started playing with the idea of using BATS, and came
across your ITP and RFS. However, for my use, I'd need a more recent
version (0.3.1+). Could you update your packaging to that version? I'd
be happy to review and sponsor it afterwards.
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Elmar Stellnberger writes:
> Am 04.11.13 18:43, schrieb Paul Tagliamonte:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Paul Tagliamonte
>> mailto:paul...@debian.org>> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 06:22:15PM +0100, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
>> > Is it really a problem? If yes then
Elmar Stellnberger writes:
> S-FSL v1.3.3 uploaded at http://www.elstel.org/license/
>
> Having clearly considered your critics I have published a reworked
> edition
> of S-FSL which should more strictly adhere to the terms of OSS-software.
> As you can understand and as I have already partial
Elmar Stellnberger writes:
> Am 12.11.2013 10:24, schrieb Andrew Shadura:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 12 November 2013 10:22, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
>>> O.K. That is actually what is to be done next.
>>> There are some people whom I know and who I am going to consult.
>>> It will at last be necessary
Felix Natter writes:
> (upstream) Freeplane 1.3.x will have new icons (application icon,
> document icon), but the artist wants to keep all rights and only grant
> the Freeplane project all rights of use.
> --> Is that ok for Debian?
No, it's not. See DFSG#1, #7, and possibly #8 too. But mostly
T o n g writes:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to have a generic debian/rules that creates directories?
>
> The upstream Makefiles was not designed to install into $DESTDIR but
> to /, so it assumes /usr/bin exists, while that creates problems for me:
>
> install -s -m 755 autogb /export/build/zh-a
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buildpcakge,
packages should recognise the option and build with debugging
symbols.
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Well. In this case:
export CFLAGS=-g
dpkg-buildpackage
If something doesn't honour CFLAGS, it should be fixed :)
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> servers, and the link is http://wwwkeys.us.pgp.net/ , but I have tried
> several days now, and can not get in contact with that link.
>
> Anybody know where to put the key?
>
Try this:
gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --send-keys 0x[your key id]
No need to laun
epends on are its own business, you don't have to list
them in your build-depends.
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a Section: to each package.
Like this:
Package: foobar
Section: games
Package: foobar-dev
Section: devel
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>
I saw something like this in some packages:
* Fixed in previous upload: Closes #xxx, #yyy, #zzz
That made sense to me
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> I wonder if I can build a package without signing .changes and .dsc
> (e.g. debuild -us -uc) and sign them later?
Sure. Just do a debsign .changes.
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Well. In this case:
export CFLAGS=-g
dpkg-buildpackage
If something doesn't honour CFLAGS, it should be fixed :)
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> servers, and the link is http://wwwkeys.us.pgp.net/ , but I have tried
> several days now, and can not get in contact with that link.
>
> Anybody know where to put the key?
>
Try this:
gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --send-keys 0x[your key id]
No need to launch a we
epends on are its own business, you don't have to list
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Like this:
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Package: foobar-dev
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>
I saw something like this in some packages:
* Fixed in previous upload: Closes #xxx, #yyy, #zzz
That made sense to me
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> I wonder if I can build a package without signing .changes and .dsc
> (e.g. debuild -us -uc) and sign them later?
Sure. Just do a debsign .changes.
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he configure commandline
However, I think it would be better to fix gettext..
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Because the DAM processess people in the order he likes, it is
entirely up to him. It is not documented anywhere that people will be
processed in any order, and I think that's good.
Just be patient, and wait, as most of the people do.
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At Sun, 28 Oct 2001 21:24:29 -0500,
Duncan Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Are there any resources anywhere to help me create a package for kernel
> modules that will work with make-kpkg?
You might want to take a look at dh-kpatches..
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At Tue, 30 Oct 2001 22:55:02 +0200, Hugo van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (I made another new version, and only uploaded then. So this was never
> the "topmost paragraph". Might that be the problem?)
The closed bugs get listed in the .changes file you upload. You might
want to look at t
> case "$1" in
> configure)
> ldconfig
> W: iiwusynth: postinst-unsafe-ldconfig
> Sorry, I don't get it !
Lintian is cannot parse shell scripts, it checks for some common
variants, and warns if your version didn't match what it expected.
Since you do the right thing, just ignore this
> The problem is that I have a debian native package (so no .diff.gz) that
> came from a CVS repository and I'm guessing if there is a way to not
> delete by hand CVS and .cvs... files each time I check out to build the
> package.
>
Use cvs export, or cvs-buildpackage. I'd go with the latter one.
ry time I check.
I'm attaching the typescript, if anyone has any idea, please share it
with me.
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8638:algernon@iluvatar: /tmp/tama-test] dpkg-source -x tama_1.0-11.dsc
dpkg-source: extracting tama in tama-1.0
86
(shame on me I didn't notice): in
status.c, there was a buffer (char tmp[MAXNAME]), which got overflown
if the age of the tamagotchi exceeded 99 hours (my tamagotchi is far
older than that), that's why no-one could reproduce it except me :)
tama 1.0-12 is in preparation.
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nk.
Anyways, you'd better use Build-Conflicts, or (preferred) port your
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The best thing would be to convince upstream to Do The Right
Thing(tm). Meanwhile, you can add stuff like this to your install target
in debian/rules:
DMANDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/foobar/usr/share/man
install: build-stamp
${MAKE} install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/foobar
m
I think something like this would do the trick:
if yadayada; then
db_input foo/bar
fi
To be put in the debian/package.config script.
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> So, what's wrong with this picture? Should I build-depend on bison and
> generate the file in the build target, or should I modify the makefile
> to not delete the generated file? Both seem ugly to me. Is there
> something else I should do?
Since dpkg-buildpackage will call debian/rules clean,
> make distclean should not delete the files in the first place. The
> distclean target should remove only generated files which are not included
> in the distribution (such as object code), and since this bison output is
> rightly included in the distribution, it should be left alone.
But it is
> I've the upstream original tarball on the base directory :
>gphoto-2.0beta3.tar.gz
> Note that the upstream is 'gphoto' without '2' but the debian package
> name is 'gphoto2'
> The source tree is in
>gphoto2-2.0beta3/
>
> But when I build I get
> dpkg-genchanges: warning: missing Secti
> But the original one untar the source in gphoto_2.0beta3.
It doesn't matter where the original untars. dpkg-source (which
extracts the tar and applies the Debian diff) can cope with it. Just
rename the tarball, and you'll be set.
> You mean I should only rename it ?
Yep.
msg05286/pgp0
> Have I missed something?
Are you sure that the Maintainer and the Changed-By field in the
.changes file are the same?
If they are different, it will count as an NMU from dinstalls point of
view.
I'd simply bounce the installation-acknowledgement mail to the
relevant [EMAIL PROTECTED] address.
> How to do this? (I ask mainly about the way of creating Sources.gz files) Are
> there any automagical tools for this?
apt-ftparchive
> The same about binary packages?
apt-ftparchive :)
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> How does this work and how can I get it to retry autobuilding
> the package?
It will retry when it gets to it. I'll just wait and wouldn't worry
much.
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> > > sbuild.conf changes occasionally upstream with new watches
> > > and alternatives and I'll be tracking that. The user
> > > shouldn't have to pay much attention to the file.
> >
> > And marking it as conffile allows that. If the user didn't change the
> > file, it will be replaced with the
> I have the files dict-web1913.config dict-web1913.templates in
> ../debian. After running debuild, these files, and control, are in
> ../debian/dict-web1939/DEBIAN.
>
> However, when the package is installed, var/lib/dpkg/info
> contains:
>/var/lib/dpkg/info/dict-web1913.dict-w
> If I install the package with dpkg -i, the debconf note is not
> displayed. I have DEBCONF_DEBUG set to ``developer'', but no messages
> are output by debconf. I do have a postinst that contains:
>
> #! /bin/sh
> set -e
> . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
>
Only that?
Can you put the so
> > > #! /bin/sh
> > > set -e
> > > . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
> > >
> >
> > Only that?
>
> It is a dummy package to ease the transition from dict-web1913 to
> dict-gcide. The postinst was only added to try make debconf work from
> dpkg -i.
>
Looking at the files on master, I thin
Thus spoke Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 2002-03-11 10:55:29:
> Gergely Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Looking at the files on master, I think I know the problem. The quick
> > fix is to call db_get dict-web1913/reconf in your postinst. Also,
>
> I know how to make single packages (at least they seem to work), but have
> no idea where to start for a multipackage thing. What documentation could
> I read in order to understand the procedure, or what simple existing
> package could I have a look at?
>
dh_make can generate rules for multi-
re. Furthermore, there are CVS/ stuff in both the
diff.gz and the .orig.tar.gz. If you're rolling the .orig.tar.gz
yourself, I'd drop the CVS/ things...
Apart from these, the package looks quite fine, good work!
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> > I didn't look at the file, but doesn't that deal with MacOS? If yes, I
> > doubt you need to install it into the .deb.
>
> Fink? http://fink.sourceforge.net/
And? Neither Fink, nor MacOS X is "in" Debian. If the Fink folks want
to use a debian package, they need to change it anyway, and can
> The upstream of zblast released 1.2 after he released 1.2pre.
> The problem is that dpkg thinks 1.2 is older than 1.2pre.
> So I asked him what I should do. He picked 1.2.1 for
> the Debian package, saying "I very rarely use x.y.z
> versions, and I've never used them for zblast."
>
> Did I do
> Can someone who understands the underlying setup give me some advice on how
> to deal with this? (Note: I realize the feature set I'm after isn't useful
> to most folks; I'm running the temporary archive for one of the new-arch
> ports which does not yet have space in the main archive, but we'd
> allows any version
> -> changelog may be out of date if only "package" is upgraded
>
> depneds on the same version
> -> forces the user to download huge "package-data" on each upgrade
How about >= some-version? This way, you can bump the version in the
-data package when the license changes, e
> dpkg compresses the diff file differently every time
> I build .deb . The uncompressed .diff is same.
> Is this an expected behavior?
Yes. gzip puts a timestamp in the resulting file.
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the problem may go unnoticed. It means a dummy make run tho, which might
not be wise if even a dummy run takes long.
(I think it is a justifiable compromise in many cases)
Oh, and your approach should work too, even if it is not the best way to
accomplis the goal.
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