Promote Development to Advanced

git-svn-id: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/netpbm/code/advanced@3647 9d0c8265-081b-0410-96cb-a4ca84ce46f8

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/buildtools/debian/README b/buildtools/debian/README
index 7cefb249..3f74f494 100644
--- a/buildtools/debian/README
+++ b/buildtools/debian/README
@@ -37,17 +37,23 @@ To install Netpbm as a Debian package:
 PREREQUSISITES
 --------------
 
-The following information was taken from the Jessie version (Version 8) of
-Debian, in March 2017.
-
-You don't actually need the current version of any of these.  For example,
-while we list package libjpeg62-dev, the package libjpeg8-dev works fine.
+The following information was taken from the Stretch version (Version 9) of
+Debian, in June 2019.
 
 
 Building
 --------
 
-You need the following Debian packages to build all of Netpbm.
+You need the following Debian packages to build all of Netpbm.  These
+are in addition to what is in the base system.
+
+Build tools:
+
+  gcc
+  make
+  flex
+
+Libraries to link with Netpbm:
 
 You could omit some of these and, in the Netpbm build configuration dialog,
 indicate you don't have them, and the build will simply omit some parts.
@@ -56,20 +62,14 @@ will not build the 'pamx' program.
 
   libjpeg-dev
   libpng-dev
-  libtiff5-dev
+  libtiff-dev
   libx11-dev
   libxml2-dev
   zlib1g-dev
 
+Example:
 
-In addition, you need the following build tools:
-
-  make
-  gcc
-  flex
-  perl
-  pkg-config
-
+  $ apt-get install gcc
 
 
 Running
@@ -95,6 +95,10 @@ be pretty obvious what the problem is when you need the prerequisite package
 and don't have it, so if you don't want to install a prerequisite, it would
 probably be fine to force install Netpbm, ignoring the prerequisites.
 
+There is one part you cannot build with current Debian: 'ppmsvgalib'.  That is
+because Debian does not include the required libsvga library (the last version
+that did was 7).
+
 
 CONFLICTS WITH DEBIAN'S NETPBM
 ------------------------------