On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 22:36:46 -0500 Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@debian.org> wrote: > Source: gstreamer1.0 > Version: 1.14.4-1 > X-Debbugs-CC: sl...@debain.org > > Sebastian, the gstreamer packages are some of the last prominent > "desktop" packages I use that use cdbs. I think they would benefit > from a conversion to use the "simple dh" rules instead. > > Here are some benefits I anticipate: > - dh has built-in support for meson. I guess there's nothing stopping > cdbs packages from using meson, but I haven't seen any do it. > - dh has built-in support for multiarch. Obvlously, cdbs packages can > do multiarch too but it's just a bit easier in dh. > - dh_auto_test runs build tests by default. > - dh is now much more commonly used than cdbs which makes the rules > file more accessible to more Debian contributors. > - in my opinion, dh is easier to work with in general. > > I would like to help you convert these packages, but I didn't want to > start on the work unless you were open to the idea.
I think that's a great idea. I'm currently updating in the debian- experimental branch for 1.15.1 and if you could start working on that afterwards that would be wonderful. I already had that on my list since a while but never got to it. Thanks a lot and sorry for the late reply!
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