Subject: Bug#3733: problems with compress-package

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 96 12:28 EDT

Package: compress-package
Version: 1.0-1                                 

1. The file /usr/src/compress/OBTAINING.COMPRESS says: (indented 4 spaces)

-------------------- begin quote --------------------------------------------
Sources for a compress tool that will be built with the files including
here can be found on GNU archives, under the name compress.tar.12; this
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
archive untars in the current directory.

Any compress-4.0 (named by UCB) will be built correctly.
--------------------- end quote ---------------------------------------------

which is not correct --- GNU mirrors don't carry it. AltaVista just led me to
	ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/unix-c/file-mgmt/compress.tar     

2. The debian.rules target "dist" has another target "package" which does 
   not exist, hence "debian.rules dist" fails.

-- 
Dirk Eddelb"uttel                             http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 96 13:04 EDT

The bug I reported against compress-package yesterday was answered the same
day. Not bad. but it has still no target "package" in the debian.rules file
so that "./debian.rules dist" still fails:

miles:/usr/src/compress [root] # ./debian.rules dist
make: *** No rule to make target `package', needed by `dist'.  Stop.        

I also don't understand the version numbering.  Shouldn't the new revision have been 1.0-2 instead of 1.0.1-1?

Finally, there is a manpage (at least in the compress-4.0.1.tar I found and
which built using ./debian.rules binary), but doesn't it get included in the
package? 

I reported bug#3733 in a seperate mail.