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

[Matthew Mundell]

Matthew Mundell <mattm at comp.leeds.ac.uk> writes:

>> 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.

The cause was the format of the doc-base control file, so now the
package installs successfully.

Should either of ppl_lcdd and ppl_lpsol be packaged?  If so then
should they go into the libppl package, to match the packaging of
ppl_lcdd in the RPMs?