Re: Debian Perl Group meeting at DebCamp - 2008-08-06
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 06:01:21PM -0300, gregor herrmann wrote:
> debian/rules again
> ------------------
> * For mass-updates it would be nice to have the information about
> which debian/rules-template is used. Ideas:
> - add a "header" to debian/rules, containing some unique identifier
> e.g. the version number of dh-make-perl
> - save the md5sum of the used template somewhere
> * debian/rules and quilt:
> - the debian/rules template could find out the need for including
> quilt stuff itself (and fail if there's no build dependency on
> quilt), so we'd have a template for quilt- and non-quilt packages
> - some external script for check quilt/patches
Implementation proposal:
http://people.debian.org/~djpig/rules.dh7+quilt.xs+noxs
I think this debian/rules file should work for most of our packages.
> Debian Policy 3.8.0
> -------------------
> * Publish a template for README.source and add it to all packages
> that use quilt and don't have one.
The current standard (i.e. most used) seems to be
<<<<< >>>>>>
This package uses quilt to manage all modifications to the upstream
source. Changes are stored in the source package as diffs in
debian/patches and applied during the build.
See /usr/share/doc/quilt/README.source for a detailed explanation.
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Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
www: http://www.djpig.de/
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