Very good solution, thanks for your help Adam. I'm preparing new packages. It is a corner case I see but maybe we should accept this as a general solution for the problem.
murat, 2008/4/26 Adam Borowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 02:24:03PM +0300, Murat Demirten wrote: > > I've a problem with manpages-tr package build process. It is binary > > independent package, basically contains man pages. > > > > But package author uses a different aproach to build man pages from xml > > sources. There is an xml2man.c which used on build process > > to obtain man pages. And this utility can not be run properly if > tr_TR.UTF-8 > > locale does not exist at build system. This breaks our automatic > > rebuild systems, so how can we address this problem? Any ideas.. > > You can do the following: > 1. build-depend on "locales" > 2. put the "locale-gen" script I attached into debian/locale-gen > (changing en_US.UTF-8 to tr_TR.UTF-8 in your case) > 3. in debian/rules: > > manpages: > sh debian/locale-gen > LOCPATH=$(CURDIR)/locales $(MAKE) manpages > > The idea is not mine, but I don't remember whose anymore :(. But hey, it > works for me. > > -- > 1KB // Microsoft corollary to Hanlon's razor: > // Never attribute to stupidity what can be > // adequately explained by malice. > -- Murat Demirten Genel Müdür Yenihayat Bilişim Teknolojileri A.Ş. (212) 210 77 36
