talon wrote @ Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:20:40 +0200: > Andreas Hauser wrote: > > > > When labor is not that cheap, you need better technology > > to accomplish similar. That is what ports/pkgsrc is. It makes > > producing those packages much easier, so that less people > > can produce more packages. > > It is not so difficult to produce Debian packages. I have played > a lot that game to inject more recent software in woody. If the > software has a configure script, which becomes common, running > dh-make on the source code produces the debian subdirectory with > debian/rules, and usually very little hacking is necessary to produce > a working .deb.
Let's say it's about as difficult as making a port. The difference being the port being maintained in a central cvs while the debian source packages are, as far as i know, not. This is like we do now. Everyone patches his own ports tree instead of a central, shared one. As i said this is a SCM problem mostly. I doubt, we would be better off patching all (how many need actually patching?) the debian source packages and keeping them in sync. Andy