OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du mercredi 14 juillet 2010, vers 17:17, Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de> disait : >>>> I'm working on package that uses CDBS >> >>> That's not a very good choice. >> >> Why? > Because cdbs is an unmaintainable beast of Makefiles. I'm not sure who is > willing to keep the Python parts in there working. Since we have dh, which is a > sane piece of code with a sane upstream, most new packages use dh. And I know > several people who are willing to update dh to work with new Python > versions/packaging changes if necessary. cdbs is a simple piece of software to maintain a Python package. Until recently, it was the only option to get a debian/rules as short as this: #!/usr/bin/make -f DEB_PYTHON_SYSTEM = pysupport include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/python-distutils.mk I still prefer cdbs to dh because it is easier to configure by just setting variables. I know that there is some drawback (see for example #386970 that is still not solved) but for simple packages, it just does its job. I think that since it is major piece of Debian (still an "official" way to build a package), we should ensure that it will work with the new policy. I will try to take care of this (and I will look at other python related bugs currently in BTS). -- I AM NOT A DENTIST I AM NOT A DENTIST I AM NOT A DENTIST -+- Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 7F24
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