Quoth George Farris on or about 2004-11-09:
Can someone please make Debian packages as well, I would love to test this on Ubuntu. Thanks.
I just had a crack at it, and there are a few problems. The most obvious is that about half of the contents of /debian is missing.
PROMPT> DIFF="diff -uprdw -x CVS -x .cvsignore -x *.po -x *.cpp -x *.h inkscape-cvs inkscape-0.40pre2" PROMPT> $DIFF | grep ^Only\ in | sort
... Only in inkscape-cvs/debian: compat Only in inkscape-cvs/debian: dirs Only in inkscape-cvs/debian: docs Only in inkscape-cvs/debian: inkscape.applications Only in inkscape-cvs/debian: inkscape.xpm Only in inkscape-cvs/debian: mime ...
Without `dirs', `inkscape.applications' and `inkscape.xpm' (at least), the build fails. I can add these easily enough, but I'm wondering why they've disappeared in the first place. There are a bunch of other files in /share and /src; presumably that is deliberate.
Other problems I noticed:
- The package version (from /debian/changelog) is wrong. - The test package I built appeared to be empty of Inkscape files (i.e. just control, md5sums, etc).
I'm just about to try building from CVS, then I'll look at 0.40pre2 again.
-trent PS: 0.40pre1 appeared in my package list a few days ago. Probably it's in the official sid respository.