Re: Maintainer newbie questions

2007-07-08 Thread Steffen Sledz
Brian Dessent schrieb: >> 3. Same question for the build requirements. > > There's no automatic way to determine this, you just have to know which > developer tools are required to build the software. For the most part it's > pretty straightforward, e.g. it requires the 'make' package if a step w

Re: Maintainer newbie questions

2007-07-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Steffen Sledz wrote: > 1. What's the best way to find all the dependency information needed for > hint files if multiple binary packages (with own hint files) are made > from the same source? Calling cygport with the deps parameter does not > split the dependencies to different packages. By runn

Maintainer newbie questions

2007-07-03 Thread Steffen Sledz
My work at the new emacs packages makes good progress. The cygport stuff is really comfortable. I hope, that I can present a new version in the next days for testing. But also after reading all the documentation there are some last questions (if I've overlooked something please forgive me): 1. Wh