Re: debhelper "I have no package to build"

2002-05-19 Thread Joey Hess
Steve M. Robbins wrote: > John H. Robinson, IV is correct to point out that HTML files are > excluded from compression by default. I didn't realise that. In the > case at hand, however, the HTML tree has more than .html files: it > includes programming examples in .cpp files, for instance. Comp

Re: debhelper "I have no package to build"

2002-05-19 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, In response to the two replies, John H. Robinson, IV is correct to point out that HTML files are excluded from compression by default. I didn't realise that. In the case at hand, however, the HTML tree has more than .html files: it includes programming examples in .cpp files, for instance.

Re: debhelper "I have no package to build"

2002-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Steve M. Robbins wrote: > Surely this is not the first time someone has run into this. Am I > doing something silly? It seems a bit odd to make the "no package to > build" diagnostic a fatal error. It's almost always a mistake. I think you're the first person to do this on purpose. -- see shy

Re: debhelper "I have no package to build"

2002-05-17 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:01:14PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > The binary-common rule has lots of dh_* stuff there, including > dh_compress. I decided that compressing the HTML files would be a bad > idea, so I modified it to skip that one package using the dh_compress man page says:

debhelper "I have no package to build"

2002-05-17 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I regularly use the template debian/rules file /usr/share/doc/debhelper/examples/rules.multi2 that has binary-indep and binary-arch rules that both use a single binary-common rule. The binary-common rule has lots of dh_* stuff there, including dh_compress. I decided that compressing the