Re: before building a debian package...

2008-12-13 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Maria Nelson wrote: > I'm learning to build gpsim, it's up for adoption anyway. I think the latest > debian version is 0.22.0-5, but the one I'm able to download from > sourceforge is 0.22.0, so it seems that debian has a newer version than > upstream is distribut

Re: before building a debian package...

2008-12-13 Thread Maria Nelson
Hi Lars, Kev, So far, people on DW have been really helpful. So I thank you all for being patient. I'm learning to build gpsim, it's up for adoption anyway. I think the latest debian version is 0.22.0-5, but the one I'm able to download from sourceforge is 0.22.0, so it seems that debian has a ne

Re: before building a debian package...

2008-12-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 03:54:39PM -0800, Maria Nelson wrote: > Hi All, > > Before a program can be turned into a Debian package, it should be build-able > with just the regular ./configure, make, make install sequence. Is that > correct? > > Also, when you go to build a package, and it doesn't b

Re: before building a debian package...

2008-12-12 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2008-12-12 kello 15:54 -0800, Maria Nelson kirjoitti: > Before a program can be turned into a Debian package, it should be > build-able with just the regular ./configure, make, make install > sequence. Is that correct? It is not actually necessary for the upstream build system to follow that f

before building a debian package...

2008-12-12 Thread Maria Nelson
Hi All, Before a program can be turned into a Debian package, it should be build-able with just the regular ./configure, make, make install sequence. Is that correct? Also, when you go to build a package, and it doesn't build, what are your options? Do you contact that upstream author? Is that act