Re: [HOWTO?] Splitting one upstream package into several .debs

[Edward Betts <edward@hairnet.demon.co.uk>]

On Wed, 10 Feb, 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> Edward Betts wrote:
> > On Wed, 03 Feb, 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> > > Thanks for all the help guys.  I am now packaging aspell into aspell.deb,
> > > aspell-dev.deb and aspell-doc.deb  Should all of them go into the same
> > libaspell0 for the libraries? aspell-bin for binaries? and libaspell-dev?
> 
> aspell for binaries, libaspell0 for libraries, libaspell-dev for headers
> and aspell-doc for documentation.

cool

> > pacakge     dependencies
> > aspell-bin  suggests aspell-doc, depends libaspell0
> > aspell-doc  suggests aspell-bin
> > libaspell0  suggests aspell-bin, aspell-doc
> > libaspell-dev suggests aspell, depends libaspell0
> 
> Have decided to go with your suggestion.

nice to here that

> I have not yet uploaded my packages.  My packages are available from
> http://www.aunet.org/thaths/hacks/deb/aspell/  Would appreciate if you
> folks took a look and told me if things are OK for an upload.

I am about to go and get them.

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