Hi Robert, > Ah, ok. Safely ignorable, it's for upgrading from pre-FHS packages IIRC. Just > make sure your docs are in /usr/share/doc/<pkg> and not in /usr/doc/<pkg>.
OK. Perfect. > > I fixed this one. The problem is that when I packaged ASK for the first > > time, > > the "python" package meant "Python 2.1" and due to some bugs in 2.1, I had > > to > > _require_ Python 2.2. But then comes the catch: If I put /usr/bin/python2.2 > > as the interpreter (back then, the interpreter location for Python 2.2), > > and "Requires: Python2.2 (>=2.2.0)", > > If you mean the entry for debian/control, that'd be "Depends: python2.2" if > you really need 2.2 or "Depends: python (>= 2.2)" if any later version will > work. Exactly what I did. The problem, at the time, is that there was no package called "python" with version >=2.2. Python 2.2's package was called "python2.2", hence the confusion. But it's all OK now. I require "python (>=2.2)" > > > > Again, the full lintian warning message seems relevant here. > > > > I'll modify it once more to declare the "templates" as configuration > > files. Some people modify the originals. Having them overwritten on upgrade > > is a bad idea... > > Do you refer to /usr/bin/ask.py and such? You can't set these as conffiles, > since all stuff in /usr could well be read-only. No. This one is immutable. The templates are in fact text files that the average user may choose to change. I cheched the FHS and it's not very clear to me where I should put those files? /var/lib? Note that they're usually copied into the user's home directory for use. We can think of them as "skeleton" files, but they may be edited directly. > Btw, I suggest you rename it to /usr/bin/ask. We tend to remove the language > extensions such as .pl or .sh when installing stuff in /usr/bin. It is strictly necessary? I really don't like having the extension, but I fear "ask" is too common a name to be under /usr/bin without causing conflict. Another concern is to break existing scripts. Opinions? One question: I need to make ask dependent on some kind of MTA. What should I use? "Depends: mta" ? Is there anything "virtual" called mta that resolves to any of them? Regards, Paga > > -- > Robert Millan > > "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the > thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he > gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new > work." > > -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion) -- Marco Paganini | UNIX / Linux / Networking [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP: http://www.paganini.net/pgp/ http://www.paganini.net | Magnus Frater te spectat...
