On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:53:28 +0100 "Martin Fuzzey" <mfuzzey@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok I've done the first one (strace) : > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=512103 Excellent, thanks. I'll add strace to the repository in the next few days and then the autobuilder will keep it up to date. > The package builds cleanly (with both emdebuild and empdebuild) and > executes correctly on the target. > The contents look ok (just the binary, no man pages etc). > > However I do have a few questions : > > The build worked fine even _without_ the patch for debian/xcontrol > (including in a embdebuild chroot). So do I need the xcontrol in this > case? (there are no library dependencies beyond build-essential and > debhelper). Ah, yes, in that case, xcontrol is currently optional. > Assuming the xcontrol is needed there is a lot of duplication with > control. The wiki mentions the possibility of using xcontrol(1) from > debian/rules to generate debian/control from debian/xcontrol however a > cursory look at a few crush packages didn't show me any uses of this > (I haven't grepped for this on a full checkout though). What is the > recommended practice here? Use xcontrol by default but packages can omit it if there are no cross-dependencies needed at this time. In time (once Simon does more work on debian-x-control), xcontrol will become mandatory for cross-building as it will also embed metadata concerning changes within the package (e.g. gnupg uses --enable-minimal which has appreciable effects of functionality. See also #480710.) > Is there anyway of getting emdebuild not to generate patches for my > editor autosave files (*~) ? Hmm, I can look at that. It probably should omit all files that look like backups or autosave cruft. A wishlist bug against emdebian-tools could be handy - in case I forget - "emdebuild should ignore all backup and autosave files" with examples of the suffixes used by your editor(s). -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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