Re: Suidmanager Released
Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> I thought we had a discussion about this and had consensus for a more
> sensible scheme involving a small amount of support in dpkg ?
I too prefer Ian's mechanism. Not only is it simpler, but it does not
require us maintainers of suid packages to rebuild our packages.
I haven't switched to debmake. I am quite satisfied with my work
bringing my packages up to snuff with the new packaging standards, and
I am a little hesitant to throw some of it away and become dependent
on a package that currently is "Priority: optional" and sometimes has
four or five revisions released in a week.
I'm not saying that debmake is a bad package. On the contrary, I
suppose that we soon shall have to decide whether it will become part
of the standard suite of tools for building Debian packages and
require (or at least strongly recommend) its use. However, if it is
fully embraced by the Debian development community, we should
incorporate it into the whole Debian development system (e.g., by
linking it via a "Recommends" to the dpkg-dev package) or at least
increase its priority in the distribution so that it is expected to be
present on the system of any user who plans on building packages (much
in the same way that perl is expected to exist on every Debian system
for use by package maintainer scripts). Until then, maintainers like
me will drag our feet because we don't have the time to keep up with
changes that are not part of the official policy but instead come
about because "some guy wrote a neat script."
--
Brian
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