[XForms] Re: [PATCH] Simplify configure.ac

Peter S Galbraith psg at debian.org
Wed Sep 10 13:38:27 EDT 2003


Angus Leeming <angus.leeming at btopenworld.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 10 September 2003 5:25 pm, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > Making Debian packages involves a debian/ directory.  See
> > http://ftp.debian.org/d[snip...]/libforms1_1.0-4.diff.gz
> 
> Cool! I didn't know you'd done that! I'll have a look at some stage.

You didn't know is was packaged?
 
> > Making the actual packages also involves doing it on a Debian system,
> > of course, since specific tools are required to calculate dependencies
> > and certain helper packages are invoked.
> 
> Sure. But then that is true also of rpmdist. 

Yeah, I added that as an afterthought.  It did seem fairly obvious.
I just wanted to make sure.  :-)

Peter



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