On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 08:16:12PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Hi Frederico! > > You wrote: > > > I'm packaging sel (I did an ITP on it yesterday); I've gotten to the > > point were the package correctly builds, goes trough lintian with no > > warnings, installs ok and deinstalls ok. > > Great. > > > The package is relatively simple (well, only one bin, and actually just > > two or three code files)... my only doubt is if all the dpkg build > > targets are fully functional (I expect so, I've tested one or two and it > > worked without changing the default). > > What do you mean by 'dpkg build targets'? > Well, mainly I didn't yet tested the 'clean' target in debian/rules, but I will now :) > > The program has 'less' harcoded into it, and uses it has a pager to > > display the help, so I made the package depend on less... butt a better > > aproach would be to change the code so it would get the PAGER env var > > and go with it, in which case it would depend on a pager virtual package > > (IIRC there is one)... but let's mimagine the user has a pager but > > doesn't set the PAGER env? What is the Right Thing to do with this case? > > Change, not change? > > It would indeed be very nice if the package would use the PAGER env var. > It is probably even policy for it to do so. If the PAGER env var is not > set, you should fall back to the `pager` alternative: /usr/bin/pager is > a symlink to /etc/alternatives/pager, which is in turn a symlink to the > default pager on the users system (the sysadmin can change this using > the `update-alternatives' command). Indeed, update-alternatives is the Right Way. Iwill read more about that - and about the sensible-pager alternative that was mentioned in this thread. > > > BTW: are the original INSTALL files to be installed or not (the ones > > that say how to compile)? > > No, they're not necessary. Thanks! > > > Well, this is all for now, thank you all :) > > You're welcome. > Thank you once again, fsm -- Frederico S. Muñoz GNU http://www.gnu.org fsmunoz@sdf.lonestar.org Debian http://www.debian.org http://sdf.lonestar.org - SDF Public Access Unix Systems
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