Ben Burton wrote:
Eee, no. If i do something to packaging, i send patches so they can be integrated to cvs. I only change build-depends from my build-scripts to automake1.5 and libpng2-dev (no automake1.6 in woody and imlib-dev conflicts with libpng3-dev...). If the perl hack i wrote is going to be used, it will be all-or-nothing. I mean it will be used in cvs or not at all. Is it better this way?I build packages for Woody from cvs (they will hopefully end up on ftp.kde.org). It would be nice to combine our efforts. I am developing script to make *.install files more flexible (with respect to ever-changing file-lists in cvs). If you think you could make use of it (i mean adapt packaging to this), i'd be happy to help you (i don't have enough time to do it myself properly, so the script is rotting on my hard-drive atm).Hmm, so I'm a little worried about the scenario where we have the CVS debs using the maintainers' packaging (which for KDE 3.1 is not apt-gettable AFAIK but is presumably the branch that's headed for sid), Karolina's debs using her (somewhat different) packaging and then Yenar's woody debs using a hybrid of the two plus his own scripts...
The purpose of the hack is to ease building of snapshot packages, as the file-lists are aging too fast to be comfortable. Let me reiterate: if someone is going to make use of it, i'm fine with it. I won't build modified debs with them and pollute already-problematic debian/kde packaging space :).
I guess I'm starting to get a little nervous about upgrade paths, propagation of packaging bugfixes (as opposed to differences in taste), that sort of thingAnyway, FWIW. Maybe I just get nervous easily. :)
Take it easy :).
b.- --Ben Burton benb@acm.org | bab@debian.org Public Key: finger bab@db.debian.org The Honorable Member has been in so many parties he is a complete political harlot. - Paul Keating, on Independant Steele Hall
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