[E-devel] Questions about building e17 debian packages

[N-Mi <nmi3@free.fr>]

Hello,


I'm building a debian-amd64 unstable package repository for E17 cvs and 
I have a few questions and reports to make :

1) Build-Depends and Depends :

I've found an (I think) incorrect (build-)dependency for Imlib2 and 
Imlib2_loaders. They depend on xlibs-dev which is no longer in 
testing/unstable.

The problem can be resolved by replacing "xlibs-dev" by "xlibs-dev |
libx11-dev" in sections "Build-Depends" and "Depends" of
"<app_name>/debian/control" files.



2) misc/scrot incorrect version

Generated package version of Scrot is incorrect : it is 0.3-0cvs instead 
of 0.8. This is due to outdated file misc/scrot/debian/changelog . A 
possible way to resolve this problem is to generate changelog file with 
autoconf to automatically put the right version in changelog file, as 
this is done for other libs/apps (for example in 
e17/libs/edb/debian/changelog.in)



3) dpkg-buildpackage not running autoconf

There is a problem with several libs/apps using a cdbs-powered 
debian/rules file and having these lines :

-------------8<----------- snip -------8<-----------------
DEB_MAKE_CLEAN_TARGET := clean

clean::
        if [ -f $(CURDIR)/../../snapshot ]; then ./autogen.sh 
--prefix=/usr; fi
-------------8<----------- snip -------8<-----------------

The problem is as dpkg-buildpackage use "clean" target instead of 
"distclean", config.h file is not deleted, so dpkg-buildpackage runs 
directly the compilation, without running autoconf.

This is not grave for most of libs/apps as we can launch autogen.sh with 
"--prefix=/usr", but for libs who takes extra config flags like ecore it 
renders this line useless in debian/rules :

-------------8<----------- snip -------8<-----------------
DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS :=  --disable-ecore-evas-dfb --disable-ecore-dfb
-------------8<----------- snip -------8<-----------------

So why use "clean" instead of "distclean" (the default target used by 
dpkg-buildpackage to clean files), as it prevent dpkg-buildpackage from 
running autoconf ?


Regards,

N-Mi.