Re: How to maintain packaging files for multiple distributions in the same tree?
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Evil. Don't change control at build time.
Well, all GNOME packages update their control in the clean target, and
I think this is ok. The GStreamer packages update their packages in
a special "maint" target which is manual; this works okish, but this
gets forgotten from time to time.
> Beter to generate a debian/control.new from control.in and then fail
> (with a helpfull message) if that differs from debian/control.
That's an idea if the above mechanisms displease ftpmasters.
However, it goes against having two controls for Maemo and Debian.
> I think the simplest thing is to branch. You might want to upload some
> ix to stable-proposed-updates, security or testing-proposed-updates in
> which case your changelog gets additional entries not present in the
> unstable changelog and so on. A branch fits there perfectly.
I'm not convinced this will work. I can imagine this will either
result in a fork or in a large manual process such as Ubuntu's; in both
cases, the process doesn't encourage pushing the patches back to
Debian (IMO, and from what I've seen).
--
Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>
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