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Re: Re: naim - IM client



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> At least debian/control *isn't* policy compliant - for one thing, it
> contains multiple Build-Depends fields. There should only be one, either as
> a single line or folded over multiple lines as described in policy (5.1);
> additionally, there should be a comma between each entry (there's one
> missing) and no comma after the final item.
>
> Some of the Build-Deps themselves are a little enthusiastic to say the
> least
>
> :> (and in at least a couple of cases in violation of policy); briefly:
>
> * You do not need to (and indeed should not) Build-Depend on any package
> marked as `Essential', unless you require specific versions of the package
> (sections 3.5 and 4.2). That means you can remove: base-files (why is that
> there anyway? :->) and coreutils.
>
> * Build-Dependencies on any package classed as `build-essential' are also
> unnecessary unless you need specific versions. That allows the removal of
> gcc-3.3 (build-essential always depends on the current default version of
> gcc) and libc6-dev.
>
> * You can also remove any Build-Deps that appear to be present purely to
> satisfy the dependencies of other Build-Deps: libc6 and l-k-h (libc6-dev
> depends on both), libncurses5 (depended upon by the -dev package) and
> probably libattr1 (since libacl1 depends on it).

All of the problems mentioned above have been fixed.

The file are still at

http://mithrandir.dyndns.org/debs/binary/
http://mithrandir.dyndns.org/debs/source/

Thanks for all the help. I still need a sponsor though =).

Rohit
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