RE: Complicated Packaging..
On 27-Feb-2000 Eliot Landrum wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I've been trying to provide complete Debian packages for the 0.9pre2
> release of the Jabber server (jabber.org) but have been stuck on one of the
> packages (etherx) because it is kind of a complicated package.
>
> Not only does etherx install libraries in $prefix/lib, but it also has two
> binaries in $prefix/bin and one config file. One of the binaries is a
> daemon. This is just seems too difficult for me.. all the packages I've
> done so far are simple libraries or single binaries. I think the .deb's
> from etherx should be similar to gimp so it would be like libetherx0,
> libetherx-dev, and just plain etherx (for the daemon and config file). But
> gimp's rules file is complicated! Might anyone be able to help me through
> this?
>
look at how imlib handles this.
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