On Sun, 27 May 2007 15:55:54 +0200 Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "debomatic". > > * Package name : debomatic > Version : 0.2.1-1 > Upstream Author : Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@ubuntu.com> > * URL : http://debomatic.linuxdc.it/ > * License : GPL > Section : utils > > It builds these binary packages: > debomatic - Automatic build machine for Debian source packages It's based on pbuilder and debootstrap but what - EXACTLY - does it add to these two? Bear in mind I'm writing a cross-building buildd for Emdebian that uses code from pbuilder and passes commands to debootstrap and that is a much more difficult task than the one outlined for debomatic. If there was a need for debomatic, it would already exist - lo and behold: pdebuild. (Hence the Emdebian version to cross-build inside a debootstrap chroot is empdebuild.) Building source packages - without changes - that have already been built, uploaded and rebuilt for all the Debian architectures is trivial - I see no need for your package unless it adds something completely new, like cross-building, automatic optimisation of dependencies, automated upgrade to the latest standards version, fix for all old compat issues or all existing lintian errors. pdebuild runs lintian too and it isn't exactly hard to knock up a bash wrapper that can run linda once the build is complete. It seems to me that your package does nothing more than pdebuild and the most basic bash scripting. Please explain, in detail, how your package is better than: $ apt-get source foo $ cd foo-1.2.3/ $ pdebuild (It is not sufficient to just say that it does this in one operation, any user can knock up a bash script that does that, just from the above - and include 'sudo pbuilder update' etc.) http://buildd.emdebian.org/svn/browser/current/host/trunk/emdebian-tools/trunk/pbuilder -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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