Hi Martin, On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, Martin Quinson wrote: > I was also wondering whether it would be very impossible to transition > this directory name. I was thinking that maybe a solution using .pc if > it exists and .quilt when creating it from scratch would be rather > elegant. I quickly glanced through the dpkg-source sources, and it > must be doable in there too. But that's definitely not a quick task > doable over a friday night :)
Everything is doable but at what cost and for what gain? Basically quilt and dpkg-dev must then be upgraded together and each new upstream version (adding support of .quilt) must break the older versions of the other. There are thousands of .gitignore file that would also have to be updated to ignore .quilt instead of .pc. I'm pretty sure there must be other softwares that hardcode quilt's .pc directory for one reason or another. > Raphael, do you think that I should look at the source harder and that > it will really be difficult, or do you just think that the cosmetic > advantage does not worth the mild difficulty, actually? Do we have a > good test suite in dpkg-source, for example, or am I on my own to > prepare the patch? There's no test suite for dpkg-source. There is one for other parts though. > What are the other tools that we should take care of if considering > doing this? I don't know, but you should probably ask on the upstream mailing list to get a few more answers. May I suggest that you keep this for later when we're back in sync with upstream? :-) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Get the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
