Hi! On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 22:33:55 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Gergely Nagy wrote: > > As for the future: I still believe dpatch is a temporary solution, and > > that better tools exist now. Therefore, it is my long-term plan to > > slowly deprecate dpatch, and eventually make it gracefully leave the > > archive. > > How do you plan to do this?
[...] > But if your goal is really to get rid of it, you could just as well file > wishlist bugs on all packages build-depending on it, usertag them and > increase their severity slowly. Wishlist for now, normal in the next > release cycle and important/RC in the cycle where you want to drop it? > FWIW, we managed to get rid of 2/3 of dbs build-dependencies by filing such > bugs: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=hert...@debian.org;tag=drop-dbs Given there's at least around 800 source packages (as Gergely pointed out, and checking for embedded dpatch in source might reveal some more maybe). I think filing bug reports for these right now would be too much, and I'd propose to add a lintian check first, and wait until the numbers decrease substantially before filing them. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110817141407.ga12...@gaara.hadrons.org