On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 11:06:22AM +0000, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > My nightly dbuild cron job has started to fail. I haven't had time to > investigate why, and before I allocate the time, I'd like to offer the > package for someone else to maintain and run. I don't have the > time to do a good job on it: either for developing the script itself > (it has needed a rewrite for a long time, preferably in a better > language than /bin/sh) or for running it on a Debian source > mirror and examining the results. > > Dbuild is a tool for unpacking Debian source packages and > building Debian binary packages from them. It has competition: > the buildd daemon that is actually being used to compile many > of the architectures being worked on by Debian. Unlike dbuild, > buildd actually works well. :) > > Because of this situation, before anyone else adopts the > package, the question should be asked whether there is any > point in keeping the package alive. Specifically: Is anyone using > dbuild?
Don't, ... i actually use dbuild quite often to recompile packages, sure i am not aware of other posibilities, (does buildd have a package ? can it be used interactively, and not as a demon ?). It is very nice stuff, and works quite well, despite its shortcommings. i just type dbuild package.dsc, and it compiles me the package, i like it much ... but not much time to adopt it ... :( Friendly, Sven LUTHER