Last Question for packaging the free vecmath library

Wolfgang Baer wbaer@gmx.de
Thu Feb 10 01:22:05 2005


Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> Wed, 09 Feb 2005 12:07:56 +0100, 
> Wolfgang Baer <wbaer@gmx.de> wrote: 

[..]

>>>If I check with linda i get the following error which I cannot
>>>explain:
>>>
>>>E: vecmath1.2; Uses cdbs and debhelper.mk, but the version is to old.
> 
> 
> Don't know about this one. Maybe debhelper could be >= 4.2.30. You don't
> need gjdoc if you build-dep on kaffe because kaffe should provide it
> (damn! a new bug for the kaffe package!).


debhelper >= 4.2.30 worked - the linda error is gone.

Why should kaffe depend/provide gjdoc ? It's not meant as a complete
SDK ? I will keep the gjdoc build-dep as it doesn't really hurt and
otherwise the packages wont build ATM.

>>>The next thing is the Depends stuff for the library. I verified that
>>>the library works with all free vm's (sablevm, kaffe, jamvm, gij-3.3
>>>and gij-3.4). I want that it is possible to install this package if
>>>any of the free vm's is already installed. Is the depends ok or should
>>>it be kaffe | jamvm | ... | java-runtime | java1-runtime | java2-runtime
> 
> 
> java-runtime | any_free_vm

Thanks,

Wolfgang