On Sat, 2 May 2009 13:24:07 +0100, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net
wrote:
I personally dislike the entire concept of Debian-native source packages.
I would like it if all software in Debian had a split .orig/.diff. Even
for real native sources, it makes things like backporting, reuse by
others,
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org [090502 18:25]:
On Sat, 02 May 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
First of all, you do not discuss the most common type of packages: do
not change the build-system, but just use it. This means autotools are
never called, neighter when preparing the
* Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org [090503 01:24]:
I wold like to say that I do not really see the Degbian source
package as a primary mode of development communication between Debian
and the downstreams, as it is strictly a snapshot, and loses too much
history. I think that
On Sun, May 03 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
There is one _very_ important reason why it is the best practice, too:
since the build process is complete, and tested at every upload on
every arch, it is far less likely to break on the hands of the
security team, or on the hands of a porter of
On Sun, May 03 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
* Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org [090503 01:24]:
I wold like to say that I do not really see the Degbian source
package as a primary mode of development communication between Debian
and the downstreams, as it is strictly a
Hi,
here is some ghost spooking around in my head, and maybe you can help me
put it to rest.
The GNU build system makes a distinction between maintainers of a
source package and the people who eventually install it. Essentially,
GNU is producing a source distribution that is aiming for very
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 02:50:26PM +0300, Marius Vollmer wrote:
Making a Debian source package always felt cumbersome: dpkg-source just
tars up everything in front of it (I exaggerate, of course), and at
least I am not used to having to clean my source tree before making a
distribution tarball
* Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@gmail.com [090502 13:50]:
Still, I feel that this area of what should and shouldn't be in a source
package is a bit under-addressed in Debian. (That is very likely only my
own ignorance. I learned the little I know about packaging in Maemo;
apologies might be
On Sat, 02 May 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
First of all, you do not discuss the most common type of packages: do
not change the build-system, but just use it. This means autotools are
never called, neighter when preparing the package, nor when building the
package.
Yeah, it is really
Hi,
I wold like to say that I do not really see the Degbian source
package as a primary mode of development communication between Debian
and the downstreams, as it is strictly a snapshot, and loses too much
history. I think that people deriving code based on lines of
development I
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