Debian packaging

Am 30. Jan, 2004 schw=E4tzte Ted Gould so:

> So, I switched to Debian. It hasn't been as smooth as I'd hoped (turns

Muahahahaha, we've got another one! :)

> out they switched the subversion database format between 0.27 and 0.33,
> among other things). Now I'm trying to get everything working the way I
> want it...
>
> What I want to do is build a .deb that isn't in any apt-get repository
> that I can find. In particular, I'm looking for Pango 1.3.2. Now, I've

I see pango 1.0, but not 1.3.2.

> downloaded the source, and there isn't a debian directory in it, so what
> do I do? Is there a way that I can do a 'configure;make;make install'
> that will make dependencies happy? Can I pull the debian directory out
> of an earlier version of Pango? What should I do to get this package
> into my system?

Add a source repository to your sources.list if you don't already have one.
I suggest getting source from unstable.

Snake the debian directory out of there and stuff it into the source you
have for 1.3.2.

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.en.html

BTW, it's really easy to install inkscape on debian :).

ciao,

der.hans
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