Re: pcsc-lite and ccid backports: where is source?

[Steven Ayre <steveayre@gmail.com>]

> You won't easily be able to make a single package that compiles as multiarch for wheezy+later and not for squeeze+earlier. Probably it's possible from rules in debian/rules to create the install files if you *really* had to do it. But that wouldn't be the standard way...

Actually this won't work - the debhelper 9 dependancy is required for multiarch, but would prevent the package building on squeeze which doesn't have v9, and that gets checked before debian/rules is invoked. And as I said the version also needs to be modified to include bpo60 so you'll need the non-mulitarch package to have its own changelog too.

Simply put you need to make newer multiarch packages then manually backport them. You won't be able to make a 'universal' package that builds for both.

Build a multiarch one and maintain that (since that's the way the versions are going), and then backport from that for the older distributions.

-Steve

 

On 6 November 2012 23:07, Steven Ayre <steveayre@gmail.com> wrote:

Follow link, go to debian/, select file, find revision 20608 'Add multi-arch support' log entry, click 'diff to previous xxxxx' link

Or use this link to see all the changes in that revision:

http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/collab-maint?view=revision&revision=20608

[text changed] will show you the file's diff

Have you read this page, which is very informative on the changes required for multiarch?

http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation

You won't easily be able to make a single package that compiles as multiarch for wheezy+later and not for squeeze+earlier. Probably it's possible from rules in debian/rules to create the install files if you *really* had to do it. But that wouldn't be the standard way...

The normal procedure would be to create the multiarch version for wheezy/sid, and when backporting to squeeze revert those changes in the ~bpo60 version. Remember your squeeze and wheezy versions of the packages should not have the same version number, or they won't get upgraded to the multiarch version when upgrading squeeze->wheezy. That is the purpose of adding ~bpo${debian_release}+${build_int} to the version number when creating the backport, to make the backport an 'earlier' version.

http://backports-master.debian.org/Contribute/#index5h3

-Steve

On 6 November 2012 22:44, Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE <jmpoure@gooze.eu> wrote:

Le mardi 06 novembre 2012 à 21:37 +0000, Steven Ayre a écrit :

> Did you try clicking on the debian folder at that link?

Yes, I did and I cannot find the changes:

  * Revert multiarch changes:
            - use pre-multiarch paths in debian/*.install
            - drop Multi-Arch control field

Anyway I can always look at an older package without multi-arch.

Kind regards,
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                  Jean-Michel Pouré - Gooze - http://www.gooze.eu