On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 09:01:05AM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean here, but Debian already has several tools to > build, test and improve debian source packages. Just to name a few ... > starting from [ the bare apt-get build-dep && --build, several > <SCM>-buildpackage, debuild, pbuilder, apt-src, sbuild and probably several > unofficials like apt-fu ... and ending with the famous > wanna-build/buildd/sbuild infrastructure along with dak ] apt-build's main purpose is about recompiling packages with gcc optimization flags. However, it is designed to be an apt-get like tool. None of the software you quoted can pretend to be as simple as apt-get (maybe apt-src). apt-build tries to. > These are really no good reasons and probably a loose bait, I doubt there is > something or someone to kick out ;-) Hey, just kidding. :-) > Again I'm not sure what the definition > of source based distro is and what is Debian lacking exactly ;-) IMHO having > tools to build the distro source packages implies being a source based > distro, but Debian has always has such tools and infrastructures. I really > can't think of other distribution on the Earth with so many build tools. I cleary agree. But today, we have a simple tool called apt-get to install a binary package but none to build && install a source package, furthermore, with optimized compilation flags. This is what apt-build is about: compiling and installing Debian sources on the fly, as simply as apt-get do it for binary packages, or emerge for Gentoo. Cheers, -- Julien Danjou .''`. Debian Developer : :' : http://julien.danjou.info `. `' http://people.debian.org/~acid `- 9A0D 5FD9 EB42 22F6 8974 C95C A462 B51E C2FE E5CD
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