Re: "Ubuntu Packaging Guide"

2011-06-06 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 10:07 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Friday, June 03, 2011 9:51:00 AM Scott Kitterman wrote: > > Just to pick one example, as soon as you want to work on a package with an > > out of date branch, you need to move from the UDD toolset. > > Or quilt. Ugh. If it comes down

Re: "Ubuntu Packaging Guide"

2011-06-05 Thread Martin Pool
On 4 June 2011 01:28, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> On Jun 03, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: >> >> >From what I understand, there are people doing things all sorts of ways with >>>quilt, and I really don't want to have to learn all

Re: "Ubuntu Packaging Guide"

2011-06-03 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Jun 03, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > >From what I understand, there are people doing things all sorts of ways with >>quilt, and I really don't want to have to learn all the ways people are using >>quilt with bzr and try to

Re: "Ubuntu Packaging Guide"

2011-06-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 03, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: >From what I understand, there are people doing things all sorts of ways with >quilt, and I really don't want to have to learn all the ways people are using >quilt with bzr and try to figure out *which* way any particular package is >using t

Re: "Ubuntu Packaging Guide"

2011-06-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 03, 2011, at 09:51 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >If you look at http://people.canonical.com/~dholbach/packaging-guide you'll >find no mention of the 'normal' tools and processes that I (and I believe >most) Ubuntu developers use. This is not really an Ubuntu Packa

Re: "Ubuntu Packaging Guide"

2011-06-03 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Friday, June 03, 2011 9:51:00 AM Scott Kitterman wrote: > Just to pick one example, as soon as you want to work on a package with an > out of date branch, you need to move from the UDD toolset. Or quilt. Ugh. If it comes down to quilt, there is no way I'm using UDD until: - there is a *consist

"Ubuntu Packaging Guide"

2011-06-03 Thread Scott Kitterman
I just took my first look at the so called Ubuntu Packaging Guide and it's clear that a lot of work has gone into developing a useful guide for new contributors. It does concern me that the name "Ubuntu Packaging Guide" is really misleading. If you look at http://peopl