Re: wannabe package maintainer
> On 3/9/06, Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:01:17PM -0700, Ranjan Grover wrote :
> > > Here you go
> > >
> > > http://soundgarden.optics.arizona.edu/gwyddion_1.15-1.diff.gz
> > > http://soundgarden.optics.arizona.edu/gwyddion_1.15.orig.tar.gz
> > > http://soundgarden.optics.arizona.edu/gwyddion_1.15-1.dsc
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I did not manage to build your package on a G5 powerpc. You can download
> > the build log on my website:
> >
> > http://charles.plessy.org/debian/gwyddion_build-log.txt
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:33:59AM -0700, Ranjan Grover wrote:
> >From the error message below it seems that you don't have libgtkglext1
> installed. Would you mind installing the deb pacakge because it will
> satisfy all dependencies and then you could uninstall and try building
> it the package. I doubt it'll install on sarge since I built it on a
> sid machine. It might install on etch.
Why don't you just add the necessary -dev packages to build-depends?
It doesn't make sense to request for people to install the binary
package when they can't build from source, especially when the right
fix is trivial.
Justin
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