On Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 03:06:06PM +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote: > Hi! > > I packaged the latest KDE snapshots as debian packages. > > I have some questions about it: > - should the libraries go into /usr/X11R6/lib or /usr/lib? > Currently it's in /usr/lib, because this is default, since > /usr is my prefix. But since the binaries are in /usr/X11R6, > I thought, it may be an option to use this for the libs too. > If it doesn't matter, I leave them in /usr/lib I think they should go in /usr/X11R6/lib. Check out our policy. > - Can /usr/bin/editor really point to a pure X11 editor or is > this link just for console editors? I *think* it is used to refer to a console editor. > - where can I upload really experimental debian packages? I don't > think, that my packages are ready for prime time, so I would > prefer to have some "mentors" to have a look at them, before > I upload them regualary. Currently I have them under > http://www.informatik.mu-luebeck.de/~kulow/kde/debian/, if some- > one is interested. We have an experimental distribution. Just exchange 'unstable' with 'experimental' in the distribution line in the .changes file. > This brings me to another question: > > - Can I create debian packages as a user? I've heared about something > called fakeroot, but couldn't find it so far, so I create them while > beeing root. I would even prefer to create them using a user's prefix > instead of the later used. How would I do this? fakeroot should be a package of itself. It's only available as libc6 variant, it won't work with libc5. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * joey@infodrom.north.de * 26129 Oldenburg / / The good thing about standards is / / that there are so many to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum /
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