Release 10.73.32

git-svn-id: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/netpbm/code/super_stable@3869 9d0c8265-081b-0410-96cb-a4ca84ce46f8

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/buildtools/debian/mkdeb b/buildtools/debian/mkdeb
index 4d3a4984..8ca0f738 100755
--- a/buildtools/debian/mkdeb
+++ b/buildtools/debian/mkdeb
@@ -3,13 +3,17 @@
 #                                mkdeb
 ###############################################################################
 #
-#  This generates a Debian packge file (.deb) to install Sourceforge
+#  This generates a Debian package file (.deb) to install Sourceforge
 #  Netpbm on a Debian system.
 #
 #  This is especially useful because Debian does not have a good Debian
 #  package (what Debian contains is derived from Sourceforge Netpbm ca.
 #  2002).
 #
+#  The dependencies this package declares are those that can be satisfied by
+#  Debian 8 (Jessie) and Debian 9 (Stretch).  Netpbm works fine on other
+#  versions of Debian, but you may have to change the dependencies in this
+#  program or ignore dependencies at install time.
 ###############################################################################
 
 use strict;
@@ -108,12 +112,30 @@ sub netpbmVersion($) {
 
 sub control($$) {
     my ($release, $architecture) = @_;
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#  The contents for the package control file, as a hash reference.  In the
+#  referenced hash, there is one key for each line of the control file.  The
+#  key and value in the hash are the key and value for the line of the control
+#  file.
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-# The Debian packaging system doesn't provide a way to express Netpbm's actual
-# prerequisites.  For example, Netpbm needs Version 6.2 or better of Libjpeg,
-# but there is no way to state that here.  Instead, we state Libjpeg 8.
-# This makes the Netpbm package less useful.
-
+    # Because developers of some of the dependent libraries frequently switch
+    # to distributing versions not backward compatible with what they
+    # previously distributed, and Debian always packages the currently
+    # distributed version, it is virtually impossible to produce a Netpbm
+    # package that works in multiple Debian versions.  This program is coded
+    # to create a package that works on the Debian system the Netpbm
+    # maintainer currently uses to build the Debian packages he distributes.
+    # If you are building for any other version of Debian, you'll have to
+    # modify this code.
+
+    # Note that the backward incompatibility is usually only at a binary
+    # level, not source level.  And sometimes the only incompatibility for
+    # Netpbm purposes is that the soname has changed so that Linux will refuse
+    # to run a Netpbm program built for Debian N on Debian N-1.
+
+    # The following is for Debian 9.
+    
     my %control;
 
     my $debianNativeNetpbm = 
@@ -134,9 +156,8 @@ sub control($$) {
     $control{'Depends'} =
         'libc6, ' .
         'libjpeg62, ' .
-        'libpng12-0, ' .
-        'libsvga1, ' .
-        'libtiff4, ' .
+        'libpng16-16, ' .
+        'libtiff5, ' .
         'libx11-6, ' .
         'libxml2, ' .
         'zlib1g, ' .
@@ -423,7 +444,9 @@ sub buildDpkgBuildTree($$$$$) {
     makePkgConfig("$dpkgDirName/usr/lib/pkgconfig/netpbm.pc", $templateSubsR,
                   $netpbmPkgDir);
 
-    makeManweb($dpkgDirName, $netpbmPkgDir);
+    # Beginning in Netpbm 10.78 (March 2017_, 'make package' doesn't package
+    # the manweb stuff, so we no longer put it in the Debian package.
+    #makeManweb($dpkgDirName, $netpbmPkgDir);
 }