Bug#188049: ITP: build-common -- common build system for Debian packages

[Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-07
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : build-common
  Version         : 0.1
  Upstream Author : Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>
* URL             : 
* License         : GPL
  Description     : common build system for Debian packages

 This package contains the Common Debian Build System, an abstract
 build system based on Makefile inheritance which is completely
 extensible and overridable.  In other words, CDBS provides a sane set
 of default rules upon which packages can build; any or all rules may
 be overridden as needed.
 
So, CBS was an experiment, and I learned a lot from it.  build-common is
a lot better.  It even uses itself to build itself :)  Once it's in the
archive I'll write up something about it here.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux columbia 2.5.66-acpi20030328 #1 Fri Apr 4 20:18:21 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8