On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 13:18 -0500, Ruben Molina wrote: > > lintian isn't the be-all and end-all of Debian packaging. Have you built > > any *working* packages? > > Well, I packaged the new version of gts library and used it with gerris > (both of them, current version package and new upstream snapshot). It > seems to work fine, but I need more testing. > > How can I know what other packages depends on my library for test them > too?
Depends what you mean - build dependencies: pdebuild i.e. try to build the package in a clean chroot where the only packages installed are ones you will find in a buildd environment. $ sudo pbuilder create $ cd /path/to/package-1.2/ $ pdebuild When it fails, use dpkg -S to find the package that provides the file that broke the build (look for "No such file or directory"). Reverse dependencies - well if the library does not currently exist in Debian then it cannot have any reverse dependencies - there cannot be any packages that depend on a library not already in Debian. Use apt-cache rdepends foo to find the reverse dependencies of a package already in Debian. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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