Re: problem with Abyss

[Tony Travis <tony.travis@minke-informatics.co.uk>]

On 27/02/2019 08:30, Andreas Tille wrote:
> [...]
> (make sure you wait until abyss_2.1.5-7~bpo9+1 is available there - the
> page is not yet updated at the time of writing!) and installing manually
> on an Ubuntu system might work (but its not tested since I have no
> easy access to an Ubuntu machine).

Hi, Andreas.

I've just compiled a .deb for Adly under Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 LTS with one 
minor change to debian/control:

> Build Abyss package from source manually
>
> # download from http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/abyss/
> ajt@beluga:~/src/Abyss$
> ls
> abyss_2.1.5-7~bpo9+1.debian.tar.xz  abyss_2.1.5-7~bpo9+1.dsc  abyss_2.1.5.orig.tar.gz
>
> # extract sources
> dpkg-source -x abyss_2.1.5-7~bpo9+1.dsc
> cd abyss-2.1.5
>
> # change "debhelper" dependency from 12~ to 11~
> vim debian/control
> ...
> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11~),
> ...
>
> # build binary package
> debuild
> ls ..
> abyss-2.1.5                           abyss_2.1.5-7~bpo9+1_amd64.changes  abyss_2.1.5-7~bpo9+1.dsc
> abyss_2.1.5-7~bpo9+1_amd64.build      abyss_2.1.5-7~bpo9+1_amd64.deb      abyss_2.1.5.orig.tar.gz
> abyss_2.1.5-7~bpo9+1_amd64.buildinfo  abyss_2.1.5-7~bpo9+1.debian.tar.xz  abyss-dbgsym_2.1.5-7~bpo9+1_amd64.ddeb
>
>
> # install binary package
> sudo gdebi ../abyss_2.1.5-7~bpo9+1_amd64.deb
> apt policy abyss
> abyss:
>   Installed: 2.1.5-7~bpo9+1
>   Candidate: 2.1.5-7~bpo9+1
>   Version table:
>  *** 2.1.5-7~bpo9+1 100
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      2.0.2-3 500
>         500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse amd64 Packages

Thanks for your help,

  Tony.

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