Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2015-04-19 19:10, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 10:54:09AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> The resulting debs are installable with dpkg -i ( \o/ ).  I have not
>> tried anything fancy like setting up a local APT mirror and tried to
>> convince APT do install it.
> 
> I did and apt works with ddeb just fine, meaning it can happily
> print infos about them, download them and install them with dpkg.
> 
> There are two exceptions as far as I can see:
> [... snip minor issues with .ddeb support in various APT tools ...]

For reference, it seems like we will be picking the ".deb" route.  So
even these (minor) issues are unlikely to be a problem.

> 
> 
> So, super-cow approves (d)debs.

\o/

> (In fact, apt-dbg never became a thing as automatic ddebs were always
>  "very soon now" in existence every time it came up. This time please…)

I certainly intend to follow this all the way.

> And it especially approves the debhelper branch name. ;)
> 

I could imagine. :>

> 
> [...]
> 
> btw: Is it planed to drop them into their own repository/component or
> are we gone blow up our regular Packages files with them? (you might
> guess from the wording which way I would prefer).
> 
> 
> Best regards
> 
> David Kalnischkies
> 

It is my general understanding that most people would (strongly?) prefer
that ddebs were placed in a separate component.  I would be surprised if
we did ended up including them in the current components.

Thanks,
~Niels