[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Re: [debian] Packaging of RSSKit/RSS Reader

[Damyan Ivanov]

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Yavor Doganov wrote:
> Дамян Иванов wrote:
>>> Because RSS Reader will FTBFS if RSSKit is not installed.
>> I thought rsskit is built as part of the rssreader's build process.
> 
> It is, but the app fails to build:
> 
>  Linking app Grr ...
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lRSSKit
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [Grr.app/./Grr] Error 1
> make: *** [Grr.all.app.variables] Error 2

Adding appropriate -L option to linker invocation should fix this.

> RSSKit is being built before Grr (the app), but it has to be
> installed.  This is what upstream recommends as well, e.g. first go to
> the RSSKit dir, compile and install it and then build the app.  Kind
> of weird magic, but I can't see any other way.


>> To ease name change for users, a dummy transitional package may be
>> created. This also [co-]maintainer's choice.
> 
> There's no need for this.  Initially I thought to change Grr
> everywhere, but that's not necessary, I think.  I'll only keep the
> source/binary package as rssreader.app, the wrapper/manpage/etc will
> be Grr.  I guess that's OK.

I meant a dummy package with no content, depending on the "real"
package. So user can apt-get install grr (if this is what upstream calls
the program) and get rssreader package installed (containing grr binary)
(I assume that upstream renamed the binary to grr). Just an idea.


dam
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