On 09/08/14 15:55, Greg Hellings wrote:
What sort of "Lintian" errors?
Sorry Greg ... It didn't say. A few days ago, the packages page showed the submission for Xiphos as having the error. It did not give specific details. Now, that page has been automatically removed because a fix was not submitted.
I'm very new to packaging, but when I made the experimental package for the Sword library, the only sure way to build was to use debuilder under a debian chroot environment. (under any distro). Debuilder works in a virtual environment into which you install all dependencies using apt-get, and the dependencies have to exist as Debian packages in the repo you are building for.
The process logs all errors including lintian errors and only builds a submittable package when you've written patches and overrides to fix them.
When I got a completed package, the maintainer (Was it Dimitri?) who submitted it had to alter the library version number which conflicted with the existing library. This has now broken the older library and led to automatic removal of the older Bibletime package and the only existing Debian package for Xiphos. I know some folk think the Debian packaging process is overly picky. It's not - it's just very safe!
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