requesting sponsor for pd-cyclone

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 13, 2010, at 8:37 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 23:17, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 09:19 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:15:05AM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> pd-cyclone is a huge library of all sorts of objects that are  
>>>> clones of
>>>> objects in Max/MSP4.5, Pd's proprietary cousin.  It also includes
>>>> utilities for importing Max files.
>>>>
>>>> pd-cyclone is a long-form dh package that is a wrapper to a very
>>>> complicated Make build system. pd-cxc is in
>>>> git.debian.org/pkg-multimedia.  It is a library without depends  
>>>> that
>>>> are new packages.  It builds on my i386, but it did not build on  
>>>> the
>>>> launchpad amd64 build machine, it died on this error, which has  
>>>> stumped
>>>> me:
>>>>
>>>> dpkg-genchanges -B -mUbuntu/amd64 Build Daemon  
>>>> <buildd at titanium.ppa>
>>>>> ../pd-cyclone_0.1~alpha55-1~maverick_amd64.changes
>>>> dpkg-genchanges: arch-specific upload - not including arch- 
>>>> independent packages
>>>> dpkg-genchanges: error: cannot read files list file: No such file  
>>>> or directory
>>>
>>> It looks odd to me that you use no debhelper tools in the binary- 
>>> arch
>>> target - only in the binary-indep one.
>>
>> Thanks, that was the key.  This now builds on i386 and amd64 and is
>> ready to go.
>
> The git repository is not fixed.

I am not sure I understand. What I see on git.debian.org is the same  
as what I have on my machine, and I used git-buildpackage to make the  
source package to submit to Launchpad:

http://launchpad.net/~eighthave/+archive/libdirs/+sourcepub/1362005/+listing-archive-extra

> Also, why do you use long-form debhelper?


Because I didn't see a way to do it with short-form. This library has  
a very elaborate build system that I've tried for years to figure  
out.  Instead I've found the best way is to wrap it into something  
more understandable, and long-form seemed the easiest way to do that.

I am open to changing it to short-form, but I don't see a clear way to  
do it

.hc


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