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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.


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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

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