[Pkg-crosswire-devel] Ubuntu packages

[Daniel Glassey]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Dominique Corbex
<dominique.corbex at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 14:50 +0000, Daniel Glassey wrote:
>>
>> I haven't looked at them yet but the source files there are 'native'
>> packages so the debian dirs are inside them, and any patches, if any,
>> are already applied.
>>
>> http://dominique.corbex.net/gnomesword/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/
>>
>> Dom, did you use any patches? Can you recreate the packages as
>> non-native packages? For that you need to have e.g. a
>> sword_1.5.11.orig.tar.gz, which is a copy of the upstream tarball, in
>> the directory below sword-1.5.11. Then build the package. That will
>> show all differences to upstream in the diff.gz
>>
>> Regards,
>> Daniel
>
> For sword, I didn't applied any patch to the sword tarball, I just added
> a copy of the debian directory and wrote a questionnable rules file.
>
> It works but it's far from being compliant with the debian policy and
> rules.
> I just wanted a running libsword for using with GS.

That's ok :)

> For Gnomesword, the debian directory is now part of the tarball. I
> suppose that we have to remove it if we want to follow the Debian
> Policy.

Yes. It should be enough to remove the debian directory from
EXTRA_DIST in Makefile.am before the next gnomesword release.

Thanks,
Daniel