stevepusser wrote:how I can use the Ubuntu PPA system without installing Ubuntu, which I don't want to do.
Who requested you to build packages for Ubuntu that you don't need, and you can even not test ??? Is this logical ? Don't you have the impression to waste your time ?
If someone needs a package for ubuntu, they will know how to make it, and where to place it to have a chance that users find it => PPA.
Absolutely no chance an ubuntu user will use your files.
I even frankly suppose ubuntu users do not need Icecat at all, or simply use the icecat.tar.bz2 package.
More generally, you make packages for who, considering nobody knows they exist ? (or may be 5 people on this forum ?)
Did you ask Debian team before to know if they need or want Icecat in their repository (or backport) ?
For information, I have compared the control file of icecat_52.3.0-gnu1+7.0trisquel3_amd64.deb form Trisquel, with your icecat_52.3.0-gnu1~obs_amd64.deb .
What is the difference ? Nothing but this:
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http://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/p ... /i/icecat/
Package: icecat
Version: 52.3.0-gnu1+7.0trisquel3
Architecture: amd64
Maintainer: Ruben Rodriguez <ruben @ gnu.org>
Installed-Size: 113530
Depends: lsb-release, libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.17), libcairo-gobject2 (>= 1.10.0), libcairo2 (>= 1.10.0), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.9.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.30.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.4), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14), libnspr4 (>= 2:4.12), libnss3 (>= 2:3.28), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libstartup-notification0 (>= 0.8 ), libstdc++6 (>= 4.6), libx11-6, libx11-xcb1, libxcb-shm0, libxcb1, libxcomposite1 (>= 1:0.3-1), libxdamage1 (>= 1:1.1), libxext6, libxfixes3, libxrender1, libxt6
Recommends: libcanberra0, libdbusmenu-glib4, libdbusmenu-gtk4[/code]
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https://build.opensuse.org/package/bina ... Debian_9.0
Package: icecat
Version: 52.3.0-gnu1~obs
Architecture: amd64
Bugs: mailto: <
stevep@mxlinux.org>
Maintainer: Steven Pusser <stevep @ mxlinux.org>
Installed-Size: 112516
Depends: lsb-release, libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.17), libcairo-gobject2 (>= 1.10.0), libcairo2 (>= 1.10.0), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.11), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.30.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.4), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangoft2-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libstartup-notification0 (>= 0.8 ), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libx11-6, libx11-xcb1, libxcb-shm0, libxcb1, libxcomposite1 (>= 1:0.3-1), libxdamage1 (>= 1:1.1), libxext6, libxfixes3, libxrender1, libxt6
Recommends: libcanberra0, libdbusmenu-glib4, libdbusmenu-gtk4
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I do not see at all the so "
Debian" specificity of your build.
Well, I think you have enough from me to understand my perception of packages dropped out of control in the nature, and made by people unidentified by Debian.