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Re: multiple target packages - how do they work?



On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 05:07:33PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 05:16:04PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote:

> > Could someone point me to the docs for this?  It seems to be YAMP
> > (yet another magic process) within the Debian build system, and I
> > would like to understand it better.

> /usr/(share/)doc/packaging-manual is probably a good place to start.
> Have a look at the info on http://www.debian.org/devel/ for more
> pointers.

Yes, I've looked at those, but they are not very clearly organized,
from the point of view of someone trying to apply what is contained.
They don't give you an idea at all about the 'feel' of it. I've looked
at a few packages, and, lacking a common way to do this, it seems like
everyone does it in a slightly different way.  Yuck:-)

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