On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 14:19:24 +0100 Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.j.ledkov@linux.intel.com> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Owner: Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.j.ledkov@linux.intel.com> > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name : obs-build > Version : 20140918 > Upstream Author : Adrian Schröter <adrian@suse.de> > * URL or Web page : https://github.com/openSUSE/obs-build > * License : GPL-2+ > Description : scripts for building RPM/debian packages for > multiple distributions > > This package provides scripts for building RPM and debian packages in > contained environments for various build distributions. These tools > are use by Open Build Service workers and openSUSE distribution by > default. > > By default it claims very generic paths: > /usr/bin/build > /usr/lib/build > > I'm planning to keep those as per upstream, if however there are > strong objections I'd be happy to change those to obs-build. Any number of packages could have claimed /usr/bin/build by now, instead we have sbuild, debuild, pdebuild, make, dpkg-buildpackage, git-buildpackage and a host of others. I don't see that obs deserves to be the "one true build" which may be the impression given by an overly common binary name. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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