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Re: debhelper 3.x for potato available?



On 01 Jul 2001 16:22:20 +0200, Christian Marillat
<marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>I hope I forgot nothing...

I must have done something wrong since I had to backport a whole
truckload of packages, including gettext, html2text, sed, sgml-base,
sgmltools-lite, some of which themselves build-depend on debhelper 3.

The debhelper package resulting from my efforts has a dependency on
debconf-utils which doesn't seem to exist on potato, and the resulting
debconf backport failed because I obviously goofed in gettext. make in
debconf's po subdirectory fails with a bunch of obscure error messages
from msgmerge ("invalid multibyte sequence").

msgmerge is a binary from gettext, and the gettext package behaves
significantly different when being built on potato: The package built
on potato has, for example, /usr/lib/libintl.so.1.0.1, while the same
sources build on sid don't have this library.

What am I missing? From what you're saying, building debhelper 3 on
potato shouldn't be _that_ hard!

Any hints will be appreciated.

Greetings
Marc

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