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sudo pbuilder create --distribution sid | sudo pbuilder create --distribution sid | ||
Bug | ==Bug reports== | ||
* 667112 on gcc command line option -Wl | |||
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LDFLAGS = -shared -Wl | LDFLAGS = -shared -Wl | ||
-Wl means "pass the following option to the linker" | |||
Revision as of 05:28, 4 April 2012
I maintain bubblefishymon.
Basic Steps
1. apt-get source bubblefishymon: get the source 2. fix the bugs: 1 Delete in debian/control file: . Homepage: http://www.jnrowe.ukfsn.org/projects/bfm.html And add after Standards-Version: Homepage: http://www.jnrowe.ukfsn.org/projects/bfm.html
2 Updated to Standards-Version: 3.9.1 in debian/control file
3 Fixed black background in WindowMaker. Someone had a patch on github. Downloded the patch and in the bfm folder:
patch <- (patch file)
4 Fixed FTBFS bug with binutils-gold. It said that I had to specify the library (libX11). Changed 2 times in bfm-0.4.4/Makefile (Mako): GTK_LIBS = -lX11 $(shell gtk-config --libs)
5 Fixed menu as directed by lintian in 2 steps: Instead of Apps/Systems --> Applications/Systems Instead of Applications/Systems --> Applications/Systems/Monitoring When I search for the lintian error messages, I get a page that has a list of packages with the same error plus the suggested solution on top.
6. Fixed Copyright by adding in debian/copyright:
Copyright:
Copyright (C) 1999 Merlin Hughes Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Johan Walles <d92-jwa@nada.kth.se>
Copyright (C) 2001 Pigeon Copyright (c) 2009 James Rowe <Jay@jnrowe.ukfsn.org>
7. Fixed the nonstrip option problem by editing debian/rules (Clint): ifeq (,$(findstring nostrip,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
INSTALL_PROGRAM += -s
STRIP_PROGRAM = strip else STRIP_PROGRAM = true endif
8 Fixed watch accordingly to the suggestion on BTS so as to report the upstream update (though it's not happening now since there's no upstream developer): version=3 http://www.jnrowe.ukfsn.org/projects/bfm.html../_downloads/bfm-(.*)\.tar\.bz2
3. Build package after some fixes: dpkg-buildpackage (-us -uc skips the signing stage): This makes dsc and changes and diff.gz files in the *parent* directory (i.e. /home/mika/).
4. Run lintian on changes to check errors in the directory where .changes files exist: lintian -i -I *changes (if there are multiple changes files in the same folder, specify here.)
5. Test the package by: sudo debi (the change file name)
6. Make (dh-make changelog) or edit in editor the changelog file in the debian folder. The format is:
bfm (0.6.4-3) unstable; urgency=low
* (Change description. Make sure to add (Closes: #bugnumber) if the change fixes the bug.
-- Mika Matsuzaki <mika@yukidoke.org> (Timestamp, automatic by dh-make)
7. Upload .dsc and .diff.gz somewhere, so that the sponsor can get it.
8. pbuilder can help simulate the problems in sid (problems if using Ubuntu. Just use Debian):
sudo pbuilder create --distribution sid
Bug reports
- 667112 on gcc command line option -Wl
Removed -Wl from: LDFLAGS = -shared -Wl
-Wl means "pass the following option to the linker"
