Re: modernising old packages

2001-01-11 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 09:59:53AM -0600, Gordon Sadler wrote: The #PACKAGE# lines above are from the example scripts in /usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debian*/rules if you debianize a source package by running dh_make, #PACKAGE# will be replaced with the package name. If you just copy them

Re: modernising old packages

2001-01-10 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:58:14AM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: Hi Drew! You wrote: What is the appropriate way of bringing meschach into the 21st Century? Are there any tools for handling this, or do the changes need to be made manually? You'll have to do it manually. The file

Re: modernising old packages

2001-01-10 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:43:37AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:58:14AM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: You'll have to do it manually. The file /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz contains all chanes between subsequent policy versions. Using this

Re: modernising old packages

2001-01-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
But when I run lintian on the changes file, it still whinges about no symlink being setup for /usr/doc: N: perl checks disabled temporarily W: meschach: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link W: meschach: prerm-does-not-remove-usr-doc-link IANADD however it's been my recent experience with

Re: modernising old packages

2001-01-10 Thread Joey Hess
Drew Parsons wrote: Am I using the above scripts wrongly? Was I supposed to substitute the name of the package instead of #PACKAGE# myself? Yes! Am I supposed to do something to get the #DEBHELPER# line in postinst prerm to work properly? Is #DEBHELPER# supposed to be there at all? (I

Re: modernising old packages

2001-01-10 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:58:14AM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: Hi Drew! You wrote: What is the appropriate way of bringing meschach into the 21st Century? Are there any tools for handling this, or do the changes need to be made manually? You'll have to do it manually. The file

Re: modernising old packages

2001-01-10 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:43:37AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:58:14AM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: You'll have to do it manually. The file /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz contains all chanes between subsequent policy versions. Using this

Re: modernising old packages

2001-01-10 Thread Andreas Fuchs
On 2001-01-11, Drew Parsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was I supposed to substitute the name of the package instead of #PACKAGE# myself? Yes. HTH, -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

Re: modernising old packages

2001-01-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
But when I run lintian on the changes file, it still whinges about no symlink being setup for /usr/doc: N: perl checks disabled temporarily W: meschach: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link W: meschach: prerm-does-not-remove-usr-doc-link IANADD however it's been my recent experience with

Re: modernising old packages

2001-01-10 Thread Joey Hess
Drew Parsons wrote: Am I using the above scripts wrongly? Was I supposed to substitute the name of the package instead of #PACKAGE# myself? Yes! Am I supposed to do something to get the #DEBHELPER# line in postinst prerm to work properly? Is #DEBHELPER# supposed to be there at all? (I

Re: modernising old packages

2001-01-09 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Drew! You wrote: What is the appropriate way of bringing meschach into the 21st Century? Are there any tools for handling this, or do the changes need to be made manually? You'll have to do it manually. The file /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz contains all chanes

modernising old packages

2001-01-09 Thread Drew Parsons
I'm adopting the meschach packages (you might recall I was asking about compiling it the other week). meschach was prepared under an old Debian policy (debian/control says Standards-Version: 2.3.0.1 ), and debian/rules makes a few references to usr/doc. What is the appropriate way of bringing

Re: modernising old packages

2001-01-09 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Drew! You wrote: What is the appropriate way of bringing meschach into the 21st Century? Are there any tools for handling this, or do the changes need to be made manually? You'll have to do it manually. The file /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz contains all chanes