Hi all, I have separated arch-dep and arch-indep files into 2 packages, the arch-dep package is called ``eviacam'' and the arch-indep package is called ``eviacam-doc''. Notice the ``eviacam-doc'' package only includes the files installed in ``/usr/share/doc/eviacam/help'' directory and nothing else. Gianfranco, could you please see is the solution I found correct? The Debian documentation on this seems to be a bit lacking, I found the solution on askubuntu <http://askubuntu.com/questions/17508/how-to-have-debian-packaging-generate-two-packages-given-an-upstream-source-arch>. Besides, does anyone know what's wrong with the desktop file. Lintian reports ``desktop-entry-lacks-keywords-entry'', but I cannot find anything wrong with regard to the standard <http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s05.html>. Happy weekend! Cheers, Alex On 01/10/2015, Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it> wrote: > Hi, > > > > >>done. thanks for the hint. > >>Those lines are probably the result of some trials >>that I forgot to cleanup :) >> >>I tidied up a bit the configuration.ac and Makefile.am files > > > wonderful > >>The point of that commit was to add the debugging flags to the >>compiler command line. >> >> if ! "$debug"; then >>- COMPFLAGS="$COMPFLAGS -DNDEBUG" >>+ COMPFLAGS="$COMPFLAGS -DNDEBUG -O2" >>+else >>+ COMPFLAGS="$COMPFLAGS -DDEBUG -g -O0" >> fi > > > yes, but I fail to see why you should override CPPFLAGS anyway :) > >>OK. Then, let's leave it as is. > > > ack >>Not sure about how much important is this issue (says pedantic). >> >>Perhaps I should consider another way to publish the tarball... > > > you can publish the tarball as always, just sign it in a tarball.gpg or > whatever > detached file. > >>Agreed. It will be better to keep the packaging files in a different >> branch. >> >>Moreover, I'm also considering building the tarball directly from the >>repository (i.e. using git-archive) instead of building it from sources. >>The latter approach (the one I'm currently using) produces (slightly) >> different >>tarballs for each run (due to changes in the atime of some files, I >> guess), >>and so are the digital signatures >> >>I tried with git-archive and it seems that it generate the very same >>tarball given a specific commit (even tried cloning the repo). >> >>However, I'm not sure if the git-archive approach has any downsides. >>What do you think? > > > how upstream builds the archive is not a Debian problem :) > I mean, use your favourite way, just don't change it too often to avoid > debian/watch file broken > > you can also use gitattributes to automagically ignore stuff to export in > the tarball > e.g. > > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-boinc/scripts.git/tree/export-boinc?id=ec52f711cc6d1e3aafdfd9e98b2a941aa602080b > > > with github as soon as you do a git tag and you push the tag, the tarball is > created. >>Thanks. Finally, I solved like this: >> >>override_dh_auto_build: >> cd po; make update-po; cd .. > > > I would have done: > override_dh_auto_build: > dh_auto_build > $(MAKE) -C po update-po > > but it is the same > > >>Is not strictly required for running eviacam. >>The build works fine in both cases. > >>I think so. It provides localization for common strings >>(e.g. 'Yes', 'No', 'Cancel', etc.) > > > oh well, isn't it automatically added by *:Depends somewhere? > you can leave it then > > >>I understand that a dbg package is "...useful if program crashes and you >>want to generate stack trace..." [1]. But not sure who might take >> advantage >>if this kind of package. I think that I need more information about this. > > > well, consider a person giving you a bug like > > "the version X.Y crashes" > > you might want them to install the dbg package and give you a stack trace > with > some useful pointers inside. > > but automatic debug packages are coming soon (TM) in Debian, so you can just > avoid it > (although it is a nice learning experience) > > cheers, > > (sorry for the delay, let me know as soon as you have something on mentors, > I guess this involves > a new upstream minor release or a bunch of debian/patches) > > Gianfranco >
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