#2 Makefile patch to comply with Debian
In the course of packaging Althea as a Debian package,
I have had to do some significant surgery to the
Makefile to get it in line with Debian's expectations.
One such change is moving althea to /usr/X11R6/bin and
the documentation to /usr/share/doc/althea to comply
with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS). Since it
is inconvenient for me to reapply these changes to
every new release, and since I think -- though am not
sure, so please verify this -- the changes will not
break anything on non-Debian systems, I am submitting
them for inclusion in the main althea distribution. The
changes I am unsure about are marked in the body of the
patch.
The patch is attached as althea-makefile-patch and
should be applied with the command
patch < althea-makefile-patch
from within the althea-0.4.3 directory (or any such
directory with the Makefile). The patch is also
temporarily available at
ftp://ftp.kaplowitz.org/pub/althea/althea-makefile-patch
To comply with Debian's policies, I also wrote a
bare-minimum man page for Althea, in section 1x (x for
X11). It simply provides the syntax for running althea
and refers the reader to
/usr/share/doc/althea/help.html for more information.
Feel free to extend this or add it as is to the Althea
distribution. If you don't, there is no inconvenience
to me; I am suggesting this as a convenience to the
non-Debian users of althea.
The man page is temporarily available at
ftp://ftp.kaplowitz.org/pub/althea/althea.1x
and should be installed in /usr/X11R6/man/man1, which
is the usual location for man pages for user X11
programs. Gzip compression of the man page in the
installation process or in the distribution tarball is
a nice extra.
- Jimmy Kaplowitz
jimmy (at) kaplowitz (dot) org
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Whoops, heh, the patch didn't seem to get attached. Let's
try this again.
- Jimmy Kaplowitz
jimmy (at) kaplowitz (dot) org
Althea Makefile patch to work with Debian