On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 07:43:07PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > > > It doesn't matter if it's user-friendly. The DBS package format is not > > > developer-friendly. > > > > But it's maintainer friendly, and that is far more useful for us to have > > good packages. > > I was using developer in the sense of "debian developer". > > However, friendlyliness for users is equally important.
Still, documentation. Dpkg-source isn't friendly without documentation. Nothing is. > > FWIW, before I started using a DBS based source format, I sat down many > > times to try and upgrade my packages to new upstream source and was so > > frustrated with forward porting patches that it sat for weeks or even > > months at a time before I got enough time/energy to do so. Example: > > getting openldap2 ready took all of 30 minutes. This included forward > > porting each patch. With the old format, I would have either manually went > > throught the diff.gz, or run the patch and went through each .rej. My time > > was saved, which makes the package more up-to-date, better maintained, and > > needs less attention. > > I'll bet I can get better results using cvs than are possible with DBS. Maybe you can, because that is what you prefer. I don't feel like setting up a CVS repo to do my package maintainence, since that means I tie myself down to one machine, or have to setup ssh or pserver so I can work on it from anywhere, and that assumes I have a net accessible development system. Sorry, but that's just not possible for most folks. I bet I get better results with what I have, since I use it day-to-day, and it does everything I need to do. I already have a new README.build that I am putting in all my packages, which will document how I have things setup. That takes away most of the problems. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]