Re: dbs package - should I upload it?
On 31 Jan 2001, Brian May wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have created a very simple package to help maintain DBS
> source[1].
uh, um, er, oh, ah
The author(me) is flabbergasted. Wow.
> It basically works, but I still need to write documentation (the man
> page has "still to be written" as the only informative text) for it,
> and I imagine many improvements will still be possible.
>
> Is anyone interested in this? Should I upload it to Debian? Would
> anyone be more interested in maintaining it then me <grin>?
As I am the author, it might be best for me to maintain it.
> It currently contains:
>
> /.
> /usr
> /usr/bin
> /usr/bin/dbs-edit-patch
> /usr/share
> /usr/share/dbs
> /usr/share/dbs/dbs-build.mk
> /usr/share/dbs/file2cat
> /usr/share/doc
> /usr/share/doc/dbs
> /usr/share/doc/dbs/README.Debian
> /usr/share/doc/dbs/copyright
> /usr/share/doc/dbs/changelog.Debian.gz
> /usr/share/man
> /usr/share/man/man1
> /usr/share/man/man1/dbs-edit-patch.1.gz
Looks fine.
> where dbs-build.mk and file2cat have been copied from the openldap
> source. A package could "build-depend: dbs" and use this file instead
> of including a separate copy for each DBS package.
I don't particularlly like what Ben has done with openldap and dbs. It
changes the api. However, having a central location for this, would get
around that.
> [snip]
> Technote: dbs-edit-patch extracts all patches before 021_debian into
> /tmp/021_debian/heimdal-0.3d, copies the result to
> /tmp/021_debian/heimdal-0.3d-old, and applies the last patch
> 021_debian (if it exists). Also, it creates a shell archive which will
> create the diff between the old and new directories:
This is VERY VERY MONDO cool. Give your self a pat on the back, then go out
and have a beer.
> Note:
> [1] I hope to avoid flame-wars as to if DBS is a good/bad idea. I hope
> I am not being too optimistic here <grin>.
Not possbile(on both counts) :)
> [2] ideally you wouldn't have to specify a temp directory, and it
> could be created under the source directory instead, however
> dpkg-source would try to include this directory in the diff file,
> which is not good. I didn't think deleting the directory was a good
> idea either.
There are ways around this.
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