[maemo-developers] Debmaster: Help for PyMaemo dependency hell on Fremantle?

[From: Benoît HERVIER]

The diablo version was the last ... but ... maybe it s the fremantle
which is older :)

Anyway i ll push it.

Thx for the fix.

Le 28 septembre 2009 22:24, Thomas Wälti <twaelti at gmail.com> a écrit :
> Hello Benoît
>
> Here is the fix: Change line 312 (? depending on your current version...) to
>
> #==========================================================================
>             # CREATE debian/changelog
>
> #==========================================================================
>             clog="""%(name)s (%(version)s-%(buildversion)s) stable;
> urgency=low
>
> The proof that it works: http://maemo.org/packages/view/mclock/ :-)
>
> PS: Can you afterwards upload py2deb (0.5.0)  to the diablo and fremantle
> repos? (I believe in diablo is still the old version without the script
> support.)
>
> Merci and thanks to all involved - case closed
> -Tom
>
>
>
> 2009/9/28 Benoît HERVIER <khertan at khertan.net>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Ok this is clearly a bug of py2deb which didn't include the package
>> number.
>> I ll fix this tomorrow in the morning.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> 2009/9/28 Thomas Waelti <twaelti at gmail.com>:
>> >>> So I guess there must be a bug somewhere in my package files.
>> >>
>> >> There is, it's in the changelog.
>> >>
>> >> The canonical place for the version string is in your changelog -
>> >> debian tools look for that string and assign the version based on
>> >> that. Here's the first line of your changelog for verion 0.6.4:
>> >>
>> >> mclock (0.6.4) stable; urgency=low
>> >>
>> >> As you can see there is no -1 after the version number. Also, the
>> >> following word after the version in parentheses is "stable", but it
>> >> really should be "unstable" since this signifies which debian
>> >> repository this package is destined for. Of course, Maemo is not
>> >> debian, so this is irrelevant at this point in time.
>> >
>> > Thanks for the help, I'll go after that and hunt and hopefully fix the
>> > bug.
>> > (For me, finding this would have been like a needle in a haystack....)
>> >
>> >> I recommend using the tools recommended by debian and Maemo[0],
>> >> specifically dh_make. The simple reason I recommend dh_make is that I
>> >> have more experience with that then py2deb and I know that dh_make is
>> >> well tested and used extensively in debian.
>> >
>> > Yes, I fully understand and agree. However, the idea is to offer an
>> > option to build a package for people without a linux desktop, so that they
>> > can prepare the package parts directly on their device and upload from there
>> > (same goes for pypackager). This also offers a quick way to "package"
>> > command line hacks (such as the gconf options for the display timeout, aka
>> > moreDimmingOptions)
>> >
>> > Best regards
>> > -Tom
>> >
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>
>



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