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Hi Fellow Bigtoppers!
I'd like to propose upgrading the Debian package format for all bigtop
packages to source format 3.0 (see [0]) and increase the minimum
debhelper revision to 7.
This change will bring a few benefits
1) Quilt based patching is a integral part of source format 3.0 - I
know we don't carry patches in bigtop trunk but if some wanted to this
change makes it much easier.
Patches reside in debian/patches with a debian/patches/series file
which describes the order in which they should be applied - I guess
this could be used in the RPM packages as well?
2) debhelper overrides and general magic
The current debian/rules files are quite complicated; switching to
version 7 of debhelper will help rationalise these rules files alot as
this version supports overrides and alot of debhelper sequencing magic:
{{{
%:
dh $@
override_dh_auto_build:
debian/do-component-build.sh
[...]
override_dh_install:
debian/install_hadoop.sh
[...]
}}}
I think this might also help people who want to contribute to the
bigtop Debian packaging as this will be more familiar.
I already trialled switching to source format 3.0 (I needed to pull in
some patches to hadoop for Ubuntu precise) and it just requires a
minor tweak to the build process (see [1]).
Anyone have any objections or other feedback?
Cheers
James
[0] http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0
[1]
https://github.com/javacruft/bigtop/commit/9a983cc008809745f5086b5158f0010b8104b716#diff-3
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James Page
Ubuntu Core Developer
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