On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:56:57PM -0200, Carlos Laviola wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:15:49PM +0100, Amaya wrote: > > Carlos Laviola dijo: > > > Some folks at #debian-devel suggested me to use dbs, > > > > Sorry, what do you exactly mean by dbs? > > The 'dbs' package :-) > > > > Can anyone give me some clues, or could anyone that does/has done this > > > give me a hand? > > > > What is exactly what you are having trouble with? > > Automating? Dealing with CVS stuff? > > Yes, I would like to know of an easy way to release frequent (weekly, > quarterly, monthly) Debian packages of CVS snapshots of certain > software like lopster and licq. >
My AM suggested that it is really quite easy to merely apply the debian directory to a cvs export rather that using the ever-so-complicated (and "evil") dbs. Supposedly (I'm maybe wrong here) dbs does not give a clean .orig.tar.gz (which is a bad thing) -- Duncan Findlay