Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink

2000-01-06 Thread Brad
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 09:23:03PM +0100, Jens Günther wrote: > > Therefore I suggest to either bring debhelper and packages it depends on to > a state in which they can be used in a slink environment (maybe putting > these packages in proposed-updates) or to prevent them from being used on > slin

Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink

2000-01-05 Thread Joey Hess
Jens Günther wrote: > I think it would be prudent not to use unstable development utilities > in producing the next stable release, because it prevents users from > building selected packages locally, although they might work well enough in > their mostly stable environment. What problems might ari

Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink

2000-01-05 Thread Jens Günther
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 09:31:05AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Was it chown --no-dereference? Perhaps that has been added to chown > recently, though the changelog doesn't say what version I should depend upon. Yes, that is it! I add some information below: ---begin quote--- dh_strip dh_compress dh

Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink

2000-01-05 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 11:47:57AM +0100, Jens Guenther wrote > Hi, > > I tried to build several potato packages for my slink machine. This failed, > because some debhelper scripts were not available. After installing the > potato version of debhelper, it failed again, this time because some comma

Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink

2000-01-04 Thread Joey Hess
Jens Guenther wrote: > I tried to build several potato packages for my slink machine. This failed, > because some debhelper scripts were not available. After installing the > potato version of debhelper, it failed again, this time because some command > (it might have been "chown") did not support

Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink

2000-01-04 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Jens Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Compilation worked fine. The only problem was that the package building > process did not work. I could have installed the programs by hand, but I > would have to bypass the package control system and would get problems when > the real packages eventua

Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink

2000-01-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 02:23:16PM +0100, Jens Guenther wrote: > > Some may be useless, e.g. sources that explicitly require glibc-2.1 > > or gcc-2.95. > The problems I encountered where in no case compiler- or library-related. > Compilation worked fine. The only problem was that the package buil

Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink

2000-01-04 Thread Jens Guenther
Hi! > > Potato sources seem to be useless for slink installations. > > Some may be useless, e.g. sources that explicitly require glibc-2.1 > or gcc-2.95. The problems I encountered where in no case compiler- or library-related. Compilation worked fine. The only problem was that the package build

Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink

2000-01-04 Thread Colin Marquardt
Hi, * Jens Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to build several potato packages for my slink machine. This failed, > because some debhelper scripts were not available. After installing the > potato version of debhelper, it failed again, this time because some command > (it might have b

debhelper, potato sources on slink

2000-01-04 Thread Jens Guenther
Hi, I tried to build several potato packages for my slink machine. This failed, because some debhelper scripts were not available. After installing the potato version of debhelper, it failed again, this time because some command (it might have been "chown") did not support some command line option