Re: sugar/olpc on .deb
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:59:30PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>[David Farning]
>> 2. There is concern about the complexity of the current packages
>> packages for debian.
>
>[Jonas Smedegaard]
>> Just a slight clarification: There is nothing new in Holger arguing
>> against the use of CDBS. And there is nothing new in my intend to
>> keep packaging simple.
>
>Is CDBS the simple or complex packaging in this context?
That depends on what you want simple:
CDBS is an additional packaging layer on top of core building tools
(like autotools or CMake) and packaging tools (like debhelper). So
CDBS-based packages are more complex to initially setup, as you need to
understand more mechanisms.
CDBS takes care of more things. So CDBS-based packages is simpler to
maintain.
My primary aim is simplest possible package _maintainance_.
It is not simple to create a CDBS-based package truly from scratch. If
instead you create a package by looking at some existing similar package
already packaged using CDBS, then I believe it is relatively simple.
But I would dare say the same is the case for debhelper: Writing a
package truly from scratch without either using some kickstart tool to
generate debian/rules or by coying from other existing packages, it is
certainly not simple to use debhelper directly. Yes, debhelper v7 makes
it simpler, but eg. keeping track of build-dependencies is not.
- Jonas
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