Re: proper way to pack package from multiple sources?
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:35:03AM +0200, Magosányi Árpád wrote:
> The syslog-ng package consists of two sources: syslog-ng itself, and
> libol.
> Now the packege is created by unpacking syslog-ng, dropping the libol
> tar.gz into the source tree, and adding the debian dir.
> It follows that either I build a package which looks like a native
> debian package or dpkg-source complains about unrepresentable changes
> to source.
> I don't want to package libol separately, as it is deprecated:
> it is used only by syslog-ng and bwall. The devel version of syslog-ng
> does not use it, and bwall's only proxy (ck-gw) made obsolete by the
> ZAS authentication method of Zorp.
>
> Question: what is the proper way to package syslog-ng?
Wait for the next release which doesn't require libol, or repackage
.orig.tar.gz so that it actually has what you need for building the package.
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- mdz
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