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From: Klee Dienes <kdienes@apple.com> To: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl> Cc: debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: new source format Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 21:37:07 -0800 > Can someone tell me if the mysterious new source-package format from > Klee also supports multiple source tarballs? I need that for the new > vim releases.. I'm a bit hesitant to use the word "supports," in that I think the format could use a bit of work before we finalize it. The short answer, though, is "yes". It supports both multiple source tarballs and multiple patch files, as well as some other more esoteric features (patches from tarfiles, moving and copying files, etc.). I've appended an example of a control file I was using at one point to build netatalk. I'm not entirely happy with the format just yet, but it should at least give a feel of the sort of things that are possible. -------------------------------------------- Package: netatalk Section: net Priority: optional Version: 1.4b2-6 Standards-Version: 2.2.0.0 Maintainer: Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org> Packaging-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 10:19:55 -0500 Build-Depends: gcc, make, tar Unpack-Depends: tar, cpio, patch, gzip Unpack-Commands: extract "netatalk-1.4b2" from "netatalk-1.4b2.tar.gz" as "." extract "debian" from "debian.tar.gz" as "debian" patch with "1.4b2-a17.diff.gz" istrip "netatalk-1.4b2" ostrip "netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.0a17" patch with "lprng.diff" istrip "netatalk-1.4b2.orig" ostrip "netatalk-1.4b2" patch with "ppr.diff" istrip "netatalk-1.4b2.orig" ostrip "netatalk-1.4b2" patch with "shlib.diff" patch with "makefiles.diff" reversed patch with "filext.diff" patch with "linux.diff" patch with "solariseagain.diff" Package: netatalk Architecture: any Depends: netbase (>= 2.02), ${shlibs:Depends} Description: Appletalk user binaries for Linux Netatalk is an implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite for BSD-derived systems. The current release contains support for EtherTalk Phase I and II, DDP, RTMP, NBP, ZIP, AEP, ATP, PAP, ASP, and AFP. Package: netatalk-doc Architecture: any Depends: Description: Appletalk services for Linux (documentation) Netatalk is an implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite for BSD-derived systems. The current release contains support for EtherTalk Phase I and II, DDP, RTMP, NBP, ZIP, AEP, ATP, PAP, ASP, and AFP. Package: libatalk14g Architecture: any Conflicts: netatalk (<< 1.4b2-3) Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Description: Appletalk library for Linux Netatalk is an implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite for BSD-derived systems. The current release contains support for EtherTalk Phase I and II, DDP, RTMP, NBP, ZIP, AEP, ATP, PAP, ASP, and AFP. Package: libatalk-dev Architecture: any Conflicts: netatalk (<< 1.4b2-3) Depends: libatalk14g (= ${Source-Version}) Description: Appletalk library for Linux (development files) Netatalk is an implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite for BSD-derived systems. The current release contains support for EtherTalk Phase I and II, DDP, RTMP, NBP, ZIP, AEP, ATP, PAP, ASP, and AFP. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Cc: deity@lists.debian.org, scoop@freshmeat.net, malda@slashdot.org Subject: [ANNOUNCE] APT 0.3.2 released! From: Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Date: 16 Mar 1999 12:04:32 -0800 It's that time again! The Debian APT Team would like to proudly announce the arrival of APT version 0.3.2, the next-generation package manager for Debian GNU/Linux. This release heralds a major jump in the way APT is laid out and put together; the plug-in architecture has been radically modified (for the better!) and there is now an /etc/apt/apt.conf file to modify just about everything possible about APT's behavior. APT also comes with a heaping helping of documentation now; a Users' Guide, configuration guide, and all sorts of wonderful information comes along with the main 'apt' package. If you're more interested in learning how the innards of APT work, or you'd like to learn how to make a plug-in, check out the new libapt-pkg-doc and libapt-pkg-dev packages. Also with this release of APT will come the new Gnome GUI front-end, aptly titled Gnome Apt. Gnome Apt has been under development for a few months and is proceeding excellently. We hope Gnome Apt will make it easier and more pleasant to manage your Debian packaging system. More information about Gnome Apt is available from https://www.debian.org/~hp/gnome-apt.html . If you wish to try out Gnome Apt, you may want to take a look at the Debian Gnome "staging area", where the Debian developers are busily coordinating several stages of Gnome 1.0 packages for both the stable and unstable releases of Debian. More information about the Gnome staging area is at: https://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/README Happy APTing! Ben Gertzfield -- Brought to you by the letters I and B and the number 19. "More testicles means more iron." Debian GNU/Linux maintainer of Gimp and GTK+ -- https://www.debian.org/ I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet/Open Projects IRC as Che_Fox. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
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