Re: Package checking
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:59:51AM -0600, Sam TH wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 04:08:05PM +0100, Paolo Molaro wrote:
> > On 02/23/01 Sam TH wrote:
> > > I'm an illustrious member of the NM queue, and have completed a
> > > package that I would be very grateful if people would check for me, to
> > > make sure that I haven't missed anything. It produces no errors or
> > > warnings with lintian.
> > >
> > > The package is uf-view, and it's a GNOME based viewer for the User
> > > Friendly comic strip. Packages are available (src and i386) at
> > >
> > > deb http://samth.dyndns.org/debian ./
> >
> > A few quick comments.
> > It's missing build-dependencies.
>
> Added. However, is there a good way to check build-depends, or do you
> just have to guess?
>
> > You should also check that it complies with latest policy 3.5.x.
>
> Changed policy version, still no lintian output.
>
> > Also, you should not change previous records in debian/changelog:
> > preserve history!
>
> Changed.
>
> > You install the generic installation instructions in /usr/share/doc:
> > this is not needed.
>
> Despite specifiying specifcally 3 different files (not including
> INSTALL) on the dh_installdocs command line in debian/rules, it still
> installs that file. How can I work around this?
>
Most likely cause, debian/docs or debian/$package.docs. If you used
dh_make, it seems to pick up INSTALL. Maybe a bug should be filed
against dh_make?
If you have 0 debian/*docs files, try -X with dh_installdocs, shouldn't
be needed though :
dh_installdocs -X INSTALL
<SNIP>
Gordon Sadler
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