Re: Splitting package

2005-04-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Benjamin Cutler wrote: The debian/control file should look something like: Package: foo-common Conflicts: foo (<< 7.6.5-2) Replaces: foo (<< 7.6.5-2) Why the "Replaces"? I would have expected that would only be necessary if there > was no longer any "foo" package. The "R

Re: Splitting package

2005-04-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 04:26:06PM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently the maintainer (non-DD) of tex4ht. This package consists of > only two (!) compiled executables and a large number of Arch: all files. > > At least in etch I would like to split this package as sugge

Re: Splitting package

2005-04-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Benjamin Cutler wrote: The debian/control file should look something like: Package: foo-common Conflicts: foo (<< 7.6.5-2) Replaces: foo (<< 7.6.5-2) Why the "Replaces"? I would have expected that would only be necessary if there was no longer any "foo" package. Whether you use <= or << is mostly

Re: Splitting package

2005-04-06 Thread Benjamin Cutler
Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hello, I am currently the maintainer (non-DD) of tex4ht. This package consists of only two (!) compiled executables and a large number of Arch: all files. At least in etch I would like to split this package as suggested in best packaging practice (Debian Ref). But that l

Splitting package

2005-04-06 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, I am currently the maintainer (non-DD) of tex4ht. This package consists of only two (!) compiled executables and a large number of Arch: all files. At least in etch I would like to split this package as suggested in best packaging practice (Debian Ref). But that location gives hints about

Re: Advice regarding splitting package 'hitop'

2001-05-11 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 09:01:28AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > If I did this, would I still have to move the hitop packages into > > non-US (since it would still build-depend upon libpgsql-dev which is > > now non-US)? Is there any way around this? Should I even care which > > part o

Re: Advice regarding splitting package 'hitop'

2001-05-11 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 09:01:28AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > If I did this, would I still have to move the hitop packages into > > non-US (since it would still build-depend upon libpgsql-dev which is > > now non-US)? Is there any way around this? Should I even care which > > part

RE: Advice regarding splitting package 'hitop'

2001-05-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > If I did this, would I still have to move the hitop packages into > non-US (since it would still build-depend upon libpgsql-dev which is > now non-US)? Is there any way around this? Should I even care which > part of the archive it goes in? > anything in non-us does not appear on the default

RE: Advice regarding splitting package 'hitop'

2001-05-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > If I did this, would I still have to move the hitop packages into > non-US (since it would still build-depend upon libpgsql-dev which is > now non-US)? Is there any way around this? Should I even care which > part of the archive it goes in? > anything in non-us does not appear on the defaul

Advice regarding splitting package 'hitop'

2001-05-11 Thread Andrew Stribblehill
I was wondering about doing this for some time, but events have forced my hand. hitop build-depends against libpgsql-dev which has become main/non-US. The situation as it stands is that 'hitop', a HTML preprocessor with pretentions to be an web-based application server, is one package. It is built

Advice regarding splitting package 'hitop'

2001-05-11 Thread Andrew Stribblehill
I was wondering about doing this for some time, but events have forced my hand. hitop build-depends against libpgsql-dev which has become main/non-US. The situation as it stands is that 'hitop', a HTML preprocessor with pretentions to be an web-based application server, is one package. It is buil

Re: splitting package

1999-03-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 09:48:21AM -0500, Randolph Chung wrote: > Another packaging question :) > > an upstream package contains both server and client programs. I'd like to > split them up into a server package and a client package. how do you do this > given one upstream source file? The client

splitting package

1999-03-15 Thread Randolph Chung
Another packaging question :) an upstream package contains both server and client programs. I'd like to split them up into a server package and a client package. how do you do this given one upstream source file? The client package is really just one file. The reason to split it off is that the se