Re: vrweb, newbie maintainer/developer
> > dch: fatal error at line 283:
> > Error editing the changelog: Illegal seek
>
> Probably you changed some bit of required syntax. Strip that out,
> change the Maintainer: field in debian/control and try dch again.
>
> > what am i supposed to do? just manually edit everything?
>
> Note that this is also covered in the documentation I referred you
> to yesterday.
still finding my way through all of that stuff... thanks for the links :)
> > - i noticed that the produced debian package (i just had to make one to
> > see what happened, without all the changes stuff) has all its paths
> > starting with '.', eg:
> > -rwxr-xr-x root/root 2515880 1999-09-23 01:22:34 ./usr/X11R6/bin/vrweb
> > whats that all about?
>
> That's in case someone ever wants to unpack in some directory besides /
ah cool
> > - i noticed that the docs are all split up:
> > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-09-23 01:22:30 ./usr/doc/vrweb/
> > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-09-23 01:22:30
> > ./usr/doc/vrweb/examples/
> > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-09-23 01:22:31 ./usr/share/
> > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-09-23 01:22:30 ./usr/share/doc/
> > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-09-23 01:22:35 ./usr/share/doc/vrweb/
> > -rw-r--r-- root/root 2442 1997-05-28 02:01:18
> > ./usr/share/doc/vrweb/README-Unix.gz
> >
> > i was going to look at correcting this, but i noticed that the
> > debian-policy 3.0.1.1 (current right?) says that docs go in /usr/share/doc
> > . thats not right is it? what about all this FHS stuff thats been flying
> > around in debian-devel/debian-policy? have i missed something?
>
> The easiest way to say it is: debian's policy 3.x is currently late
> alpha, early beta. If you want stable policy stick with something like
> 2.4 for now.
where can i find 2.4? i'm not really bothered by it as Fabien has done a
good job with vrweb, i'm just wondering how the /usr/docs should be
handled: the slink package used the /usr/doc system, what am i supposed to
use? /usr/share/doc with a symlink from /usr/doc?
um, also i'm almost sure this is a bug in devscripts as i generated a new
debian/ directory with dh_make, and running dch and just saving generated
the same error :/
oh and one more question (if i may impose): what do i do about the
"missing" man page? i don' think the original source came with a man
page... ever? so do i just leave it as a "nomanpage" package or do i
endevour to write one for it?... this missing man page s actually listed
as a bu, and i'd like to close all the bugs linked to my package...
anyway have to fire this email off before file server drops out again,
thanks for the help everyone!
Paul
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