Re: Packaging an application

2015-12-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 11:11:53 +0530, Lloyd wrote: >I understand that dpkg wont install the dependencies. Assumed all dependencies should be available by the repositories $ sudo -i # cd path/to/package/ # apt-get update && dpkg -i --force-depends packagename.deb && apt-get install -f might do the

Packaging an application

2015-12-28 Thread Lloyd
Hi, We have developed an application and it depends on many third party libraries like boost. We have developed it using Ubuntu 14.4LTS and boost 1.58. 14.4 doesn't seem to have the boost 1.58 package (to my limited knowledge). I am new to Linux, I would like to know the right way to package and

Re: How shall I report a bug in the .deb packaging itself?

2015-12-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 19:03:16 +0100, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: >Ralf Mardorf: > > Seemingly you can't provide new arguments, so you should expect to > > get the same replies and perhaps some subscribers consider it as > > trolling or spamming, so that they don't read mails of this thread > > any

Re: How shall I report a bug in the .deb packaging itself?

2015-12-28 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Russ Allbery: > I think it's correctly doing what it should in the situation > described in this thread. Okay, so what I said is what I saw. And deciding if it is true or not has always been your choice. Ralf Mardorf: > Seemingly you can't provide new arguments, so you should expect to > get

Re: How shall I report a bug in the .deb packaging itself?

2015-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Alberto Salvia Novella writes: > The problem seems to be that the package manager does not make its basic > functionality, which is to make clear for users which packages they wish > to remove. > For me it seems a minor problem that a console tool could be removed, > compared with packages accum