On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:21:55PM -0600, Zed Pobre wrote:
> Santiago Vila's pride notwithstanding, if you're going to use a
> helper package, debhelper is significantly better than debstd. I
switched to debhelper
> You have set your Standards-Version line to 3.1.1 but you don't
> have a Build-Depends line. At the very least, your package is going
> to have a build dependency on debstd, and probably others.
switched to 3.0.1
> Unless you have a very good reason to place your package as
> Priority: extra, it should probably be Priority: optional. Priority:
> extra is for packages where if you were a sysadmin and you found it on
optional/web
> Another thing to learn is that lintian is your friend. Always run
> lintian -i on all new .deb packages -- and run it again after major
> changes. In this case, it brings up a nasty list of dependency errors
passes except for a warning about LWP::Parallel::RobotUA, which is not
required, but will be used if it's available. this is noted in
README.Debian.
when you get a chance, please review 2.2.3-4 at
http://gweezlebur.com/~ivey/computing/debian/
for accuracy, or any other suggestions.
and thanks again for your help...your suggestions were VERY helpful.
- ivey
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