Re: Compiling debian packages..

[pavlov netscape com (Stuart Parmenter)]

>Me again!
>
>Two things, so far:
>
>1) Any particular reason the debian/ directory was omitted from the
>official source .tar.gz?  Ideally, I'd like to always have working debian/
>files in the main distribution, then people can easily build their own
>debs. (And, with any luck, we can make the package debian native,
>requiring no debian .diff.gz)
No reason, sorry.  The debian directory is apparently just not in one of the
Makefiles that it needs to be in to get put in the dist tarball.  We can fix
this in the next release.

>
>2) The help/C directory doesn't compile:
Is there a reason we are using docbook 3.1?  I don't think any dist has 3.1
packages yet so this will probably cause a bunch of problems.


-Stuart