Re: CDBS and dh_install
Uhhh,
I did not want to launch such a big discussion :-)
Here is my opinion (this is my first packages for Debian, and people on
debian-mentors know it has not been easy to follow the whole policy ;-)
- I first used a simple "rules" script, because I can not imagine using
a wrapper while not knowing the system it is around.
- But now, I use CDBS because it is much simpler to follow the policies
with it, and to have "good practices", ie using *.install, *.dirs, etc.
files.
- I can use CDBS because the upstream sources are standards. Moreover,
I'm upstream devel too and I can easily fix issues in upstream rather
than writing hacks in the Debian sources.
To conclude, I will use CDBS because :
- I know how to write a package without it
- and there are no hacks in the packaging.
Jean
Le 10.06.2006 10:03, Loïc Minier a écrit :
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006, martin f krafft wrote:
>
>> This is my opinion and others will disagree:
>> Please don't. CDBS is a major pain to use for those who didn't
>> (co-)author it. It's just too much about obfuscation.
>>
>
> Yeah, I and others we disagree! :)
>
> CDBS makes maintenance of some packages damn easy: most changes are
> done in debian/* files, where they belong.
>
> Here's some piece of pure statistics, completely biased by the fact all
> sources come from the same project:
> - we have 84 GNOME "desktop" packages
>
> - 71 of these are CDBS
> - they have an average debian/rules length of 18 lines (empty lines
> included, 13 lines if you exclude empty lines)
>
> Of course, the shortest code is not necessarily the easiest to read,
> but I don't consider these lines to be obfuscated either. They might
> be CDBS specific though, and require some CDBS understanding to parse.
>
> My "feeling" is that CDBS works best with upstream tarballs following a
> standard layout. CDBS pushes us into storing meta-information about
> the Debian packaging in separate files (debian/*.install,
> debian/*.examples, debian/*.docs). (Yes, this is an indirect
> consequence of debhelper being well thought.)
>
> The debian/rules ends up storing the _delta_ between what a normal
> package would do and what is needed for this particular package.
>
> But I understand CDBS can be slightly dangerous in subtle cases, and
> difficult to grasp the first time you encounter CDBSized packages.
> It's an useful evil.
>
>
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