[maemo-developers] Packaging changes to base system.

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 07:34:28PM +0300, Matan Ziv-Av wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 1. The iptables package that is installed is missing a few .so files 
> (MASQUERADE, DNAT, etc.). With a few changes to the files in debian/ 
> directory of the source package, it now also generates a new package 
> iptables-ext, which includes those missing files. The question is how to 
> distribute this: Is it acceptable to upload this to extras-devel (using 
> the autobuilder) even though this creates the same package as in the 
> base system? And should I increase the release number (which will cause 
> problems with osso-software-version) or use the same?

I believe the application installer won't allow you to replace a base
package with a version from a different repository.

Can you package just the missing files in the iptables-ext, so it would
coexist with the base package?

> 2. In order to language name in input setting dialog, rather than empty 
> parentheses, the language needs to appear in the binary files in the 
> directory /usr/share/i18n-locale-resolver/, provided by the package 
> (with no source) locale-resolver-data. I wrote a small program to 
> generate those files from a source file. The package I created now 
> includes those files with different names and the postinst script to 
> rename them, since otherwise it will conflict with the original package 
> (again, required by osso-software-version). Is there a better way to 
> achieve this?

Yes, it's called dpkg-divert.
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-pkg-diversions.html

Marius Gedminas
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