[maemo-developers] Debhelper 7

[From: Teemu Ikonen]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 3:02 PM, David Greaves <david at dgreaves.com> wrote:
> Do you have a URL for the .dsc and tarball

You can check out the sources by doing
git clone git://gitorious.org/maemo-pkg/debhelper.git

But, as said, the build fails.

Teemu

> Teemu Ikonen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to compile / port some C libraries from Debian to Maemo 5.
>> The actual compilation goes without problems, but the packaging
>> scripts use the (very nice) command sequencer functionality of
>> debhelper v. 7, while the SDK has only debhelper 5.
>>
>> There is an up-to-date 'maemofied' debhelper in maemo.gitorious.org,
>> but trying to compile it in the SDK fails miserably. The problem seems
>> to be related to perl, which is also of similar vintage (i.e.
>> obsolete) in the SDK.
>>
>> Has anyone else tried or managed to get debhelper 7 running on maemo
>> 5? Having to rewrite the packaging on every library I need would be a
>> major suck.
>>
>> Teemu
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