On Ter, 2005-08-23 at 23:14 +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Never seen this practice before. And it can be problematic, if you think > about the practice of handling outdated > automake/autoconf/intltool/gettext scripts/files. One possibility to > handle this situation is, that the necessary applications are run once > in the upstream source _before_ beginning the packaging process. So the > scripts can be updated without increasing the size of the diff.gz. In > this case, your practice will always fail. You shouldn't need to run anything other than './configure && make && make install' (with a few tweaks) on a recently extracted tarball to install it system-wide. Automake/autoconf/intltool/etc, should be run _prior_ to release, and shouldn't be outdated (but if they are, that's an upstream problem, not Debian, even though we can - and some times should - work around it). The original tarball generates a perfect package with very simple changes, take a look at: http://people.debian.org/~costela/debian/ You can download the dsc, diff and changes files from this site and the tarball from upstream and run 'dpkg-source -x bluefish_1.0.3-1.dsc'. It's clean, simple and cruft-free[1]. And already has you set up as the maintainer. BTW, since you have upstream access, it would be a good idea to remove the Debian dir from releases, as soon as possible. Cheers [1] The debian directory only needs these files: README.Debian, bluefish.manpages, compat, copyright, rules, bluefish.1, changelog, control, patches. The rest is left-over from upstream, since diff doesn't handle deleted files (illustrating another good reason not to have the /debian dir upstream) -- Leo Antunes <costelaaa@ig.com.br> | <costela@debian.org> | <costela@gmail.com>
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