NMU dpkg series - urgh !
I'm _still_ in the process of checking the dpkg source history into my
local CVS. It's taking me and my poor 20Mb 486DX/33 CVS server quite
a long time, both in terms of effort and in terms of elapsed time.
I wish that whoever it was who rearranged all the filenames and
directory structure somewhere between 1.4.0 and 1.4.0.22 would own up
so I can shout at them. They didn't even leave a note in the
changelog to say why they did it ! It looks like it might have been
Klee in 1.4.0.9, because that's where automake is mentioned.
For example, I can conceive of no reason why the `main' subdirectory,
containing the source to dpkg proper, should have been renamed `dpkg',
apart from just to make hassle for people trying to work with
different versions. The amount of effort I've spent and will spend
dealing with gratuitously renamed files and directories and
gratuitously hacked up build system is unreasonable.
I'm half thinking that before I do any serious work on dpkg I want to
manually fold in the actual changes in the NMUs into my own previous
source code, so that I preserve my previous IMO sane organisation.
Unfortunately I suppose people will complain at me too much if I do
this and drop some of the changes, eg the i18n support (which has a
good reason for being there). But I am seriously tempted to throw
away automake and perhaps libtool too.
Ian.
(in a somewhat annoyed mood)
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