#5 v8.0RC1's deb package not playing well with Ubuntu

[Sean GAO]

This deb package declares that it depends on xfonts-utils (>= 1:1.0.0-6). However, my Ubuntu box (Dapper Drake) already has the newest 6.8.2.1-5 installed. I have to use --ignore-depends=xfonts-utils in order to get this deb installed.

Can anyone fix this or maybe explain a little bit why this is not an issue?

[FangQ]

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I uploaded the whole directory tree for my deb compilation to http://wenq.org/upload/wqy-bitmapfont-0.7.9-debiandebsrc.zip

unzip it, you will see a dir called debian/, move it anywhere you want,
say ~/deb/ then you can re-generate the deb package by
cd ~/deb/
dpkg -b debian/ wqy-bitmapfont-0.7.9-RC1_all.deb

you can modify the dependence option in ~/deb/debian/DEBIAN/control
and see which one works the best for your system.

can you let me know when you figured it out? I suspect that I should not have -6 as the release number. I am not totally sure.

[Sean GAO]

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Just gave your wqy-bitmapfont-0.7.9-debiandebsrc.zip a try.

Two changes before it worked smoothly on my Ubuntu Linux box:
1- DEBIAN/control - line 6 - Depends: xfont-utils (>= 1.0.0)
2- DEBIAN/postinst - line 10 - /usr/bin/mkfontdir $PREFIX/$NAME

Hope above info helps. Any further issues or if you needed more help, pls let me know. (gaoyuxiang AT gmail DOT com)

[FangQ]

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thank you Sean

I've modified my configuration files based on your findings. I hope the new deb package will be uploaded soon, or wait for the official release in at most two weeks from now.

again, thanks a lot.

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closing the bug