Re: AAHHH Lintian!
On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Hereward Cooper wrote:
> I moved the debianization from my potato box to my woody one
> so that i can get the newer versions, but it is now chucking up
> errors.
> lintian keeps giving me these two errors. Firstly the
> build-depend of debhelper, though in my debian/control i have:
> "Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), xlib6g (>=3.3.6-4), debhelper (>=
> 3.0.0)"
> it keeps saying I need to add one.
Build depends are specified with the Build-Depends: field, not with the
Depends: field. The latter is for runtime dependencies of your package, which
debhelper probably is not.
> Secondarly it tells me I'm putting the man pages in the wrong
> place. I had the same problem when i first start on my potato
> box, but fixed it by renaming XCounter.1 to XCounter.1x but
> neither of them work for lintian now. I have "dh_installman
> debian/XCounter.1" in my debian/rules file, and have tried
> adding the x on the end here aswell.
No clue on this one, sorry.
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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