Re: debian packaging

[James Curbo <james teyandei net>]

On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 01:01, Pascal Giard wrote:
>  --- Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com> a Ãcrit : 
>
> > as of right now all of the debian files are under s.f. cvs control, but
> > they don't seem to be up to date as far as requirements and such go (at
> > least the last time i looked) i don't know how all of the debian stuff
> > works so maybe that's all done auto-magically. 
>  
> > if it would be any help we have facilities in the Makefile.PL's to
> > create the rpm spec files with the correct dependency information on the
> > fly the same could be done for the debian pkgs if need/want be. let me
> > know if you're interested. 
>
> Wolfgang should answer this one, but i think it would be relevant to do so as the dependancies are
> defined [manually] in the debian/control file.

${perl:Depends} gets most of them, fortunately. You just have to make
sure to get the ones in there that may not be explicit. For example,
${perl:Depends} generates this for Gtk2:

Depends: perl (>= 5.8.1-2), perlapi-5.8.1, libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.2.4), libc6
(>= 2.3.2-1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.2.3), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.2.1),
libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.2.1), libglib-perl (>= 1.00)

Build-Depends is the tricky one.

> -Pascal

James