Re: [Qutecsound-users] debian package
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From: Felipe S. <fsa...@gm...> - 2009-05-17 10:45:01
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El domingo 17 de mayo, Andres Cabrera escribió: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Felipe Sateler <fsa...@gm...> wrote: > > Hm, I forgot about this. The problem is that your custom csound > > installation doesn't provide the control files dpkg uses to generate the > > correct dependencies. You could trick dpkg by shipping a > > debian/shlibs.local file including the following: > > > > libcsound64 5.2 libcsound64-5.2 > > libcsnd 5.2 libcsnd5.2 > > > > > > This is the information dpkg wants. Although I don't know how it will > > behave because you don't have those packages installed. > > I'll leave it there for now... =) > > > I prefer not, because the debian package of any given software should be > > decoupled from the software. It would turn your package into a native > > package (which is not good since it would require a new upstream release > > for fixes in the debian package), or it would generate a very ugly diff > > from upstream. > > OK, I thought I read somewhere that it was preferred to have the > debian package sources inside the main source tree. Actually, it could be good to have the debian dir in a separate branch, but since branching support in svn is horrible (well, merging support at least). I do know people that use upstream's SCM, but it usually is in a distributed one that supports proper merging. Distributed is also a plus in this case because changes in debian can be done independently from upstream and then merged back. Saludos, Felipe Sateler |