[Pkg-lyx-devel] Re: dvipost (hopefully) ready for Debian

[Sven Hoexter]

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 03:55:58PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote:
> Sven Hoexter:

Hi all,
sorry for the delay but I had to attend a wedding party and a two
birthday partys during the last days.

Ok let's go for the second round.
The package is again on:
http://sven.stormbind.net/debian/dvipost/

> > So if you've some spare time please give it a try and if you're
> > familiar with Debian packages please look over the source package
> > aswell.
> 
> Good work!
> 
> Some suggestions:
> 
> * It should be possible to have TeXlive installed instead of teTex. It
>   should probably depend on tetex-bin | texlive-base-bin or something.
Is this texlive stuff actually packaged within Debian? I cannot find
a package with tex and live in the name. The only reference I can find
is in the description of the tex-common package.

> * There are missing ending newlines in postinst and postrm.
done.

> * Do you really need to create those directories listed in
>   debian/dirs?
usr/sbin was useless so I removed it.
 
> * The configure script checks things by running kpsewhich and
>   tex. These are not listed in the Build-Depends. You should probably
>   try to hardwire these values, or, if you must, build-depend on TeX.
Commented that stuff out - patches/ file 03 and 04.

> * There are lintian errors. Please fix them.
Those should be fixed now. I thought that running lintion on the .dsc
file would check the source and the binary package.

> * The package is configured two times when using debuild (which uses
>   dpkg-buildpackage). The problem seems to be the patch target
>   dependency. You should probably move the dependency from the
>   config.status target to the build target (before build-stamp).
done.

Cheers,
Sven
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