[Mldonkey-users] Re: Compiling latest CVS in Debian/Sid

[sylvain . le-gall]

Amaya writes: 

> Hi, Sylvain 
>
> Sylvain LE GALL dijo:
> > In fact, i have made a debian package of mldonkey. I haven't yet
> > upgrade to 2.4 ( i am at 2.4-rc1 but i have a lot of work for some
> > week and i haven't been able to upgrade my work ).
>
> That's good. Let's give users a chance to have a stable version :-)
> Have you considered packaging both stable and CVS versions? 

Yes i think to package a CVS and a stable. But i just want ot upload
the stable to debian. The other will be in a more restricted repository. 

> > The package contains manpages, init.d script, debconf script, some
> > patch to be compliant with binary program on debian. In fact, i think
> > i will upload it next week ( Jerome Marant @ debian.org has planned to
> > help me and to give me the chance to help me enter the debian).
>
> Did you already file an ITP bug?
> Do you take care of utils like kde-applet and mozilla url handler?
> Is Jerome going to sponsor your packages or just advocate you in the NM
> proccess? If you need help or a sponsor, I'll try to help you, no
> problem about that. 

Yes, there was a RFP, which i answered. But at this time i have problem
with my internet connection, and that is Godswin Brederlow which take
the ITP. A few time ago, i talk to Godswin in order to do a different
package, because i need to have a /etc/init.d/mldonkey-server... 

So it is not official but i have a sort of ITP on mldonkey. 

I do not attempt to package kde-applet and mozilla handler, if you want i
can create a package with all the file needed to do it, i don't use kde
... Maybe you can take the package of this things. 

Concerning NM, i will begin it with the upload of mldonkey. I think Jerome
Marant will help me ( but thanks for the proposal ) 

> > It remains only 2 errors with my package : rpath encoded in binary. 
>
> Yes, I also get that one ;-) 
>
> Take a look at:
> http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tbinary-or-shlib-defines-rpath.html
> for more info on this: 
>
>     binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath 
>
>     The binary or shared library defines the `RPATH'. Usually this is a
>     bad thing. Most likely you will find a Makefile with a line like:
>     gcc test.o -o test -Wl,--rpath
>     or
>     gcc test.o -o test -R/usr/local/lib 
>
> I guess you'll have to touch the makefiles. 

Nop, it is lying inside the ocaml compiler. There was a discussion about
that in debian-ocaml-maint. I will pass a particular program which remove
this rpath in the next release. 


> > If you want to take a look at my package, go to
> > http://perso.enst.fr/~legall/debian/
>
> I will, I may have suggestions, such us an /etc/default/mldonkey file in
> order to have a working mldonkey_submit script. 
> Interesting weekend ahead! ;-) 

I will wait for any suggestion.

> > If you want to help me by providing me some informations it will be
> > great. 
>
> Sure! I'm very interested in having a great mldonkey package into
> Debian. It's been my toy and I have enjoyed a lot playing with it and
> fighting CVS breakage ;-), but I never wanted to upload it into the
> archive, not enough spare time, I'm afraid. 
>
> I mailed the users mailing list beacuse I have seen posts regarding
> compile problems in Debian and wanted to be of some help. Still, ugly
> hacks are ugly and a decent package would be a blessing :-) 

Concerning help, i need to know if somebody can do a proper chroot ( with
the builtin feature ). I have problem using this in conjonction of
run_as_user 


Regard
Sylvain LE GALL