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| -rw-r--r-- | debian/README.debian4 | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/debian/README.debian4 b/debian/README.debian4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..900b04e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/README.debian4 @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +For whatever reason Debian build scripts (e.g. debhelper and dbclean) +seem to have changed in such a way to be Debian 4.0 ("etch") unfriendly. + +So when the ./build_debian.sh script is called on a Debian 4.0 system, +it fails saying the debhelper is too old. That can be fixed by editing +the 'control' file, changing this line: + Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 7), libtool, libcam-dev [kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64] +to: + Build-Depends: debhelper, libtool, libcam-dev [kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64] + +The script then dies in dbclean and the hack to get around that is to +edit the 'compat' file. It contains "7" which needs to be changed to +"4". Evidently "4" is deprecated and "5" is preferable and should work. + |