Ciao Arno, On 02/05/2011 16:23, Arno Töll wrote: > Hi Matteo, > > On 02.05.2011 15:55, Matteo F. Vescovi wrote: >> Yes, but no reply at present time. I asked them for info concerning who >> should be the maintainer (me?) and the uploader (now the Frank orphaned >> the package) to modify debian/control file accordingly. > > That information is not related to upstream. This is a pure Debian > internal matter. If you took over the package by adopting it, you /are/ > the maintainer. Since there is an Alioth project for you already you may > want to set the pkg-gtkpkd list as maintainer and yourself as uploader > instead.
Sorry, I misread; I meant I wrote to the pkg-gtkpod-devel team. I wrote to the upstream mailing list only once to get some info about how to manage configure flags regarding GTK and GDK. >> Never thought >> the split of the library could be an issue; it has been suggested by the >> guys in #debian-mentors to resolv a lintian warning. >> Once they'll knock on my door, I'll ask them even about this. >> Thank you for the advice. > > It wasn't me in particular to suggest you this, however I somewhat > followed your progress: Your problem is, you can't (read: should not) > install libraries into a system wide location (e.g. /usr/lib/) from a > binary package whose name is not lib<whatever>. If you do nonetheless > lintian will croak and the DD which is interested to sponsor you will > ask you to change this. > > You have two alternatives: > > * Provide libfoo as you did and install to a system wide location, but > if you do the library must be useful for /other/ packages than yours too > and you should include a -dev package providing headers and .so symlinks > which allows other people to link against your package. I don't think > your library falls in this category. > * Install the library to a program local location, e.g /usr/lib/gtkpod > and ship it in the main package. If you prefer this way, you probably > have to tweak Makefile and/or library search paths on link time a bit, > if upstream does not support this by default. Don't consider setting > rpath though. So I have only one alternative :-) And doesn't sound easy, at least for me ;-) But I'll give me a try... maybe I could even succeed :-) Thanks for your constant help. mfv -- Ing. Matteo F. Vescovi -- Il messaggio e' stato analizzato alla ricerca di virus o contenuti pericolosi da MailScanner, ed e' risultato non infetto. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dbec490.3050...@revese.it