Re: New version of Packaging HOWTO

[Igor Grobman <igor@digicron.com>]

> I'm looking for suggestions and criticism on first and foremost technical
> details.  (Have I got any facts wrong?  Is a feature not explained
> clearly?) Also on language. (Is it grammatically correct?  Have i used any
> phrases which might be hard for a non-native English speaker to
> understand?) And on any omissions I might have made. If you have any tips
> or insights which you think might make useful additions, please pass those
> on too. 

I'll nitpick: 
on page 2, you say: 
Line 8 describes the CPU architecture the binary package was compiled for. We can leave this as any as debmake will fill in theappropriate value. 
                       ^^^^^^^ 

Actually, it's dpkg that does it.

still on page 2, you say regarding Pre-depends:

This is stronger than depends. dpkg and dselect will not install your program unless the packages it Pre-depends on
are installed and correctly configured. Use this vry sparingly.


You should mention that if you want to use Pre-depends, you need the approval 
of debian-devel.


on page 3 you say:

We also don't want the debug options.

Actually, it is recommended to compile the binary with debugging symbols in 
the build target, and then strip it in the binary.  This is to ease the 
debugging for the maintainer or whoever else is working with the source 
package.

I really like your howto.  Keep on doing good work! :)




-- 
Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation....
Igor Grobman           igor@debian.org                 igor@digicron.com 



--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-doc-request@lists.debian.org . 
Trouble?  e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .