Package: googleearth-package
Version: 0.0.5
Severity: important
The script doesn't check for running arch and downloads the bin file
without any warning. It should tell the user that if he's not in a i386
Arch (or one of the arches with ia32-compat libs) the script won't be
very useful.
Strictly speaking, it's ok for it to be "Arch: all", but you could at
least warn the user that it's probably not going to work.
Regarding this issue there's a small patch attached to make it work
better on AMD64 machines, but there's still the problem of dependency:
it needs ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk.
In hindsight, I think it's best to leave this package as "Arch: i386,
amd64", add dependencies like "ia32-libs [amd64], ia32-libs-gtk [amd64]"
and be done with it! :-)
Cheers and thanks for the neat script!
Leo Costela
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages googleearth-package depends on:
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.25 package building tools for Debian
ii fakeroot 1.6.5 Gives a fake root environment
ii wget 1.10.2-2 retrieves files from the web
googleearth-package recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- /usr/bin/make-googleearth-package 2006-12-09 14:25:07.000000000 -0200
+++ make-googleearth-package.costela 2007-03-28 00:29:27.000000000 -0300
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@
Section: non-free/science
Priority: optional
Maintainer: $OPT_FULLNAME <${OPT_EMAIL}>
-Architecture: i386
+Architecture: $(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH)
Depends: ttf-dejavu | ttf-bitstream-vera, $depends
Description: Google Earth, a 3D map/planet viewer
Package built with googleearth-package.
