Re: problem building sawfish for debian

[dmg <dmg uvic ca>]

Thanks Chris,

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On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:46 AM, Christopher Roy Bratusek
<nano tuxfamily org> wrote:
> On Sunday 13 February 2011 11:25:51 D M German wrote:
>> hi everybody,
>>
>> I was trying to create the debian package when I got this error:
>>
>>   ...
>>       cp -a debian/tmp/usr/share/sawfish/1.8.0/lisp/groups.jl
>> debian/sawfish-lisp-source//usr/share/sawfish/1.8.0/lisp/ cp -a
>> debian/tmp/usr/share/sawfish/1.8.0/lisp/edge-actions.jl
>> debian/sawfish-lisp-source//usr/share/sawfish/1.8.0/lisp/ cp -a
>> debian/tmp/usr/share/sawfish/1.8.0/lisp/customize.jl
>> debian/sawfish-lisp-source//usr/share/sawfish/1.8.0/lisp/ cp -a
>> debian/tmp/usr/share/sawfish/1.8.0/lisp/poweroff.jl
>> debian/sawfish-lisp-source//usr/share/sawfish/1.8.0/lisp/ dh_install:
>> usr/share/sawfish/1.8.0/lisp/sawfish/wm/animation/main.jlc exists in
>> debian/tmp but is not installed to anywhere dh_install: missing files,
>> aborting
>>   make: *** [install] Error 2
>>   dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit
>> status 2
>>
>> does the spec file for debian need to be updated?
>>
>> thanks!
>
> I'm going the update the whole packaing scripts for debian to the latest
> specification.
>
> Several modules were added or renamed, thus the error. In the meantime you're
> better of installing manually (practically that makes no difference on debian,
> all patches were merged and the custom config in debian that remained is
> obsoleteted by apps-menu).
>
> Chris
>
>



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