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Re: RFS: gnotify -- a notification service for many desktop-environments and WM's



Hi,

lots of thanks again. I think gnotify_0.8.2-5 is ok now, at least it builds clearly in an pbuilder environment.

Is there anything else I should correct? Any hints are welcome.

Kind regards,
  simon

On Tue, 4 May 2004 01:55:01 +0200
GCS <gcs@lsc.hu> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 01:08:19AM +0200, Simon MARTIN <simon.martin@gmx.at> wrote:
> > based on your hints, I've tried to fix my bugs.
>  Ouch. You misunderstood me. I asked you to put libgtk2.0-dev,
> autotools-dev and probably libtool as well to the _'Build-Depends'_ field
> of the source package. Please read Debian Policy part 4.2 and 7.6:
> "
> 7.6. Relationships between source and binary packages - `Build-Depends',
> `Build-Depends-Indep', `Build-Conflicts', `Build-Conflicts-Indep'
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                                                                 
>      Source packages that require certain binary packages to be installed
>      or absent at the time of building the package can declare
>      relationships to those binary packages.
>                                                                                 
>      This is done using the `Build-Depends', `Build-Depends-Indep',
>      `Build-Conflicts' and `Build-Conflicts-Indep' control file fields.
>                                                                                 
>      Build-dependencies on "build-essential" binary packages can be
>      omitted.  Please see Section 4.2, `Package relationships' for more
>      information.
> "
> > Therefore, version 0.8.1
> > and 0.8.2 was created by me manually (the orig.tar.gz was changed
> > therefore; upstream maintainer has been told),
>  I think you shouldn't change upstream version. When I was a beginner in
> Debian package making, I used only upstream_version-1, and added my
> changes there. But there's a better approach, I learnt from someone here
> on this list: for the initial release use upstream_version-0.1 (-0.2, -0.3
> and so on -- it's for NMU-ing a package, but as you should reset the
> debian/changelog before the real upload, this does not hurt.
> 
> > so finally, I've at least
> > reached a small target: As far as I can see it, gnotify 0.8.2-1 is the
> > first that is completely lintian- and linda-clean (and completely I
> > mean, I do not even get warnings any more).
>  Sounds very good.
> 
> Cheers,
> Laszlo/GCS
> 

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