Re: trouble making a package
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
> I'm packaging clisp for "hamm". ... I had a package set up and uploaded,
> and it's recently come to my attention that I've probably made a few
> mistakes, so I was just going to repackage it and upload the new files
> maybe tomorrow. Here's my questions:
>
> 1) The newest version of Clisp is labelled 1997-08-07. It doesn't
> have major/minor revision numbers. I know that there has been at least
> one major release before this; should I just (for the purposes of dpkg,
> etc.) declare that this is version 2.0 and number future releases this
> way?
No. I would call the package "clisp" and set the version number to
"1997.08.07-1". Please don't use dashes (-) in the upstream version number
since they'll screw up dpkg. Please don't use "2.0-1", since the upstream
author might call a future revision 2.0. Dpkg does not have problems with
version numbers like dates.
> 2) Apparently the last time I ran deb-make, it didn't generate a
> clisp_*_i386.changes file. Would I have done something wrong?
deb-make just sets everything up for you. You have to compile the package
(using `build', for example) to get the changes file.
Feel free to ask, if you need more infos.
Thanks,
Chris
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