Re: Backport Request: gnucash

[Nathan Watson-Haigh <nathan@watsonhaigh.net>]

Bart Martens wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 13:48 +0000, Nathan Watson-Haigh wrote:
>> I've successfully built gnucash 2.2.3-2 from testing on etch.....and
>> it all went ok, except a dependancy needed to be changed from
>> libgoffice-0-dev to
>> libgoffice-1-dev to work with Etch and the following needed to be
>> changed:
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=444950
>>
>> I'm not experienced enough to get the package up-to-scratch to be
>> uploaded, but wondered if someone who is, could spend the time to do
>> this and make
>> an official backport?
> 
> Here's some info on how to make a good package for backports.org:
> http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=contribute
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bart Martens
> 
> 

I've seen this, but I'm not that experienced with building packages....is there a good tutorial that I might follow which will give a suitable
backport (ready for upload) from source obtained from testing?

Cheers
Nath