On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Peter and Jesse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> gnome_help2gnewsense.patch is for the yelp package. It changes the > tooltip for the help entry in the Gnome system menu from Ubuntu to > gNewSense. It patches over top of other patches. I assume that this is > normal; it just needs to be done last. gnome_about2gnewsense.patch is > for the gnome-desktop package. I actually couldn't get this to work. If There's no package called "gnome-desktop" anywhere in Ubuntu. > > I patch it myself, it's builds correctly, but it doesn't work if I just > put it in the debian/patches directory. The problem is that it patches > the rules file, but the output from dpkg-buildpackage shows that the > rules file is built before any patches are applied. I'm sure someone > knows how to fix this, but I haven't been able to figure it out. This is correct, rules files are used to run the build so are already parsed before they do anything. This however is not a problem with Builder, as we alter the packages before running dpkg-buildpackage. See for example: http://svn.gnewsense.svnhopper.net/gnewsense/builder/trunk/gen-launchpad-integration Could you update the patch (just one will do) so I can just apply it and submit? I upgraded my dapper dev system to hardy yesterday, so I can't do my usual testing. Docs: http://www.gnewsense.org/Builder/ModifyingANewPackage Thanks, Brian > > I hope this is helpful. > Peter Stevenson > > On Mon, 2008-24-03 at 20:18 +0000, Brian Brazil wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Peter and Jesse > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all. I'm an undergraduate computer science student, and I > > decided to > > spend the summer contributing to free software. The gNewSense > > HowToHelp > > page suggests solving known bugs. I made a couple of patches > > for bug > > 00002 concerning name changes from Ubuntu to gNewSense, but I > > can't find > > anywhere on the site that says how to submit the patch. I'm > > very new to > > this, so any help would be great. > > > > Send the diff to this list please. > > > > Brian > > > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > >
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