Re: Bug#907576. ITP: dream --A Software Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) receiver

I am working the subject ITP (first attempt at a Debian package). I am following procedure per the 'Debian New Maintainers Guide' and have reached 'dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc'.

The build goes OK down through where '3.0 (quilt)' starts, at which point I receive two types of errors and warnings.

But first I will note that the 'Dream' application has not heretofore included files supporting Autotools (no Makefiles). So, within my limited experience I have written these files presuming they will be required for Debian. I have also added a subdirectory which includes some header files that are necessary to support the FunCube and a Docs subdirectory for added documentation (well, debian too). These sum most of the changes I have made so far. I presume these will somehow appear in difference files, but then I have never done a package before.

Anyway, the first errors are of the general form;    error: cannot represent change to install.sh
                                                                                    new version symlink to /usr/share/automake-1.15/install.sh
                                                                                    old is nonexistant

There are similar errors for the 'compile' and 'missing' files. These files were added per the GNU Autotools.

The warnings are generally like this;     warning: new empty file '../autoscan.log' not represented in diff
                                                                       executable mode 0755 file of '../configure' not represented in diff

The autoscan.log is likely not needed, but I don't if the mode must be set in the configure files or how to do so. Can I ignore these warnings?

So, could someone with more experience provide suggestions on how to resolve these?

I suspect there will be some compiler errors later, but one bridge at a time...

Garie Miller wb9awa