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debplate - A template system for Debian packages



I'm going to talk about this at MiniDebConf Online next week, but since
I'm developing it with some of the kernel team's packages in mind I
thought I would give some advance notice here.

This is currently under my personal namespace on Salsa:
https://salsa.debian.org/benh/debplate

I've just updated the README file to document (hopefully) all the
features that currently work.  There's also a TODO list with all of the
things I think still need to be done for a v1.0.

There are some examples in the debplate source.  I have a work-in-
progress conversion of firmware-nonfree to use debplate, which is at:
https://salsa.debian.org/benh/firmware-nonfree/-/commits/benh/debplate

My intention is that debplate will (1) re-use existing well-known
software and formats as far as possible, and (2) be generally useful
for source packages that build multiple similar binary packages.

If it succeeds, and if we adopt it for the linux and firmware source
packages, that should result in those packages being less unusual and
so easier for outsiders to contribute to.  Also, if debplate gets
contributors from outside the kernel team, it would reduce our
maintenance burden.

Have a look at it and see what you think.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
You can't have everything.  Where would you put it?

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