Re: Debian packages...

[Jules Bean <jmlb2 hermes cam ac uk>]

On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:57:40PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
> You do know that there is a debian package maintainer, i.e. me?  You
> could have just asked me for packages ;-)

Well, further to that, I'm having a go at making packages.

I'll let you know of any problems:

The documentation build throws up errors --- looks like I may well
have an old version of db2html??

The .po messages *still* don't install cleanly on a DESTDIR build ---
how does the rpm overcome this? --- I patch the beginning of
po/Makefile.in.in:

--- balsa-0.8.0.orig/po/Makefile.in.in
+++ balsa-0.8.0/po/Makefile.in.in
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 top_srcdir = @top_srcdir@
 VPATH = @srcdir@

-prefix = @prefix@
+prefix = $(DESTDIR)@prefix@
 exec_prefix = @exec_prefix@
 datadir = $(prefix)/@DATADIRNAME@
 localedir = $(datadir)/locale

With those provisos, I have a package built, and it seems to work.

However, I have to consider merging those patches made by the kind
Martin Schulze, found in 

http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/60/60319.html

before I can upload.

Jules

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