[Pkg-fonts-devel] fontforge packaging update

Vasudev Kamath vasudev at copyninja.info
Sun Jun 12 17:43:39 UTC 2016


Adam Borowski <kilobyte at angband.pl> writes:

> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 07:42:25PM +0530, Vasudev Kamath wrote:
>> I'm not really familiar with sbuild so wondering how you get dependency
>> into schroot. Do you manually install it?.
>
> I think the way to do so is --extra-package=foobar.deb, repeated for every
> .deb you have.  I'm not 100% sure as I use a private repository my sbuilds
> are configured to use, less typing that way (once you setup it...).

Ah okay. One day I will learn sbuild :-).

>
>> > Here's what I used: (pushing elsewhere to not pollute the fonts team's
>> > official repository):
>> > https://gitlab.com/kilobyte/fontforge.git
>> 
>> Now you should be able to use repository as it is. I've updated the
>> control file.
>
> It was still missing a bunch of build-depends, I've added them and pushed to
> pkg-fonts/, please git pull --rebase.

That is bit weird actually it should have been automatically added. Ah I
do remember I commented out utils.mk because of which those depends
missed, they are actually part of copyright check.

Anyway thanks I've pulled down your changes. I will do slight
modification bit later because some of them will be redundant.



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