Packaging questions (kde_moduledir, overrides, watch)

[Michael Schuerig <schuerig@acm.org>]

I'm currently trying to build a package for kickpim and I'm running into 
some problems.

- The shared lib for kickpim ought to go into $kde_moduledir, 
/usr/lib/kde3, but instead it ends up in /usr/lib. debian/debiandirs 
are included in debian/rules. I had a closer look at the various 
Makefiles involved and I figure, I can't do much about this without the 
help of the original author.

- lintian gives me the following warnings. Can I just put them into 
debian/kickpim.overrides? The first one is obvious, but I'm wondering 
if the second one violates any policy.

W: kickpim: link-to-undocumented-manpage usr/share/man/man1/kickpim.1.gz
W: kickpim: non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink usr/lib/libkickpim.so.1.0.0 
usr/lib/libkickpim.so

- I'd like to use the debian/watch and uscan to watch for upstream 
updates, but I don't see how I can make this work with the way links 
are handled on apps.kde.com and sourceforge. Any hints?

- Finally, I don't want to keep this package to myself, but would like 
to make it available to others. Say, at 
http://www.schuerig.de/michael/debian. For my local packages 
(/pub/packages) I use the following commands (and get warnings about 
the empty overrides file...)

cd /pub
dpkg-scanpackages.dpkg packages packages/overrides | gzip \
  > packages/Packages.gz
dpkg-scansources packages | gzip > packages/Sources.gz

Now, I can't run these commands at my webspace provider.

Thanks!

Michael

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