Greetings, Kind of amusing that you decided to do this now, I've just recently been working with Slony upstream to get things cleaned up so Debian packages can be easily built from Slony. I've been working from CVS but I've been told that the fixes will be back-patched into the stable branch and released with the next stable release. A couple comments: Probably best to use Build-Depends-Indep in this case since building the docs adds alot of dependencies that aren't otherwise necessary. This is what I had: Build-Depends-Indep: postgresql-autodoc, libjpeg-progs, groff, gs-common, netpbm, imagemagick, opensp, openjade, docbook-utils Build-Depends: postgresql-server-dev-8.0, libpq-dev, cdbs, flex, bison According to upstream though, technically flex and bison shouldn't be necessary when building from a release (I was building from CVS). You should be able to remove the flex/bison parts of yoour clean:: too, really. Was there some reason you needed to rebuild them? Additionally, we need to figure out the best way to build both 8.0 debs and 8.1 debs. I like that you split it out into different debs, I hadn't gotten to that yet myself but had planned to. I'm not sure slony1-bin should Recommend postgresql-8.0-slony1 (a Suggests would be better, imv). Additionally, ntp-server should be a Recommends in postgresql-8.0-slony1, not slony1-bin. Here's what I have for my configure arguments (based on CVS, where these actually all work now...): DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS += --with-pgsharedir=/usr/share/slony1 DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS += --with-pglibdir=/usr/share/slony1 DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS += --with-pgpkglibdir=/usr/lib/postgresql/8.0/lib DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS += --with-perltools DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS += --with-docs --with-docdir=/usr/share/doc/slony1/ DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS += --disable-rpath I've also got DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_AUTOCONF = true, but again that shouldn't be necessary when building from a release. A couple of other things to note about the above: --disable-rpath doesn't work except in recent CVS. --pgsharedir, --pgpkglibdir, and --pglibdir have to be overridden because the configure script checks for things which aren't there in those directories (unless you've got the actual postgresql server installed, which really isn't an option on a buildd). Also, make install in the docs directory ignores the alternate root (again, except for in recent CVS). --pglibdir is actually still broken in CVS, talking w/ X-Fade in #slony on OPN about getting that fixed (or, even better, changing tools/altperl to use something else like --perlsharedir for the install path for slon-tools.pm). Thanks for working on this, I really should have posted an update when I started working on this stuff again last month, sorry about that. Thanks again! Stephen
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