[resent without nice french(?) chars in header unhandled by sup-mail] Excerpts from Frédéric Brière's message of lør mar 14 21:54:17 +0100 2009: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 06:05:53PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> [2009.02.27.1743 +0100]: > > > Please consider shipping the attached CDBS snippet with topgit: > > > > > > 1) install it as /usr/share/cdbs/1/topgit.mk > > I kinda feel this is the wrong approach. Not that a CDBS-topgit > (properly placed under /rules) would be a bad idea, but it seems to me > like slapping a patch over the lack of default values in tg2quilt.mk.
[details on QUILT_PATCH_DIR and QUILT_STAMPFN snipped] I agree that ideally this whould be fixed in quilt: bug#517664. Even if/when fixed in quilt, it still makes sense for TopGit to provide a CDBS snippet, however: In addition to including tg2quilt.mk, CDBS provides other functionality - specifically it provides hints about build-dependencies (including chain-loading to also resolve quilt build-dependencies, which is *not* just the quilt package itself). Yes, the proposed CDBS snippet contains workarounds, because at the moment such workarounds are needed. When the underlying bug is fixed, it might make sense to drop the workaround and instead depend versioned on properly working releases of quilt. Since this bugreport is about being nice to CDBS users, I insist that providing the proposed CDBS snippet is the way to go - despite the concrete issue spawning this bugreport really belongs to quilt. Kind regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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