[PPL-devel] Re: RFC: packaging the PPL for RedHat and Debian

[Matthew Mundell]

> So Matthew, what do we miss to make this Debian packaging system
> happy?

- debian/rules
- debian/changelog
- build dependency on graphviz
- debian/control descriptions of the interface packages
- debian/control source `Section'
- dir, install and link files for the interface packages
- debian/libppl.doc-base and debian/libppl-dev.doc-base

May I commit these changes?

Building the packages with the changes works, but the following error
occurs when installing the libppl package.  Anyone recognise the
cause?  Michael?

    Selecting previously deselected package libppl.
    (Reading database ... 157147 files and directories currently installed.)
    Unpacking libppl (from libppl_0.8pre1-1_i386.deb) ...
    Setting up libppl (0.8pre1-1) ...
    error in control file: `Section' value not specified at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 606, <IN> line 4.
    dpkg: error processing libppl (--install):
     subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     libppl

A `Section' line is present in the control file in the package.