Re: Compiling Packages

[Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Dave Broudy wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Jules Bean wrote:
> 
> > 1) Download the .orig.tar.gz, .diff.gz and .dsc file for the package from
> > any mirror in dists/<hamm or slink>/source
> > 
> > 2) Put all three in the same dir.  Type 'dpkg-source -x ????.dsc'
> > 
> > 3) Cd into the newly created source dir.  Run 'debian/rules build' (if
> > possible, as root, otherwise, read the docs on how to use fakeroot).
> 
> Sounds easy enough.  Is there a centralized list of packages that are
> higher priority, or are already done, or ones where the effort is
> substantial and are in progress?

I, too, will be compiling some packages - notably, menu, libungif,
possibly E..

Is there a system for submitting them?  Or has someone else got it
covered?  I know there are some auto-compiling tools out there..

Jules
jules@debian.org

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