Bug#204969: ITP: package-pool-helper -- Simple scripts to manage a local package pool
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:37:00PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
> Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> writes:
> > * Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> [2003-08-13 07:58]:
> >> > I'm glad that we have so much manpower that we can use it on endlessly
> >> > reinventing this wheel.
> >>
> >> Please point me to the other instances of this wheel.
> >
> > Package: mini-dinstall
>
> And debpool (#200654)
This is not yet in the archive, and not even published. A bad case of
duplicated effort indeed, but the main work related to
package-pool-helper is already done.
Joel, may I ask to see a preliminary version of your package to see if
your package can do what package-pool-helper can do and whether "my"
functionality can be added to "your" package?
> and debarchiver
Doesn't seem to handle package pools.
> and nihkatienumber345, etc. ad nauseam.
How very helpful of you.
Fact is that whenever I mention my package pool scripts in a lecture
or in a developer's meeting, I keep getting requests for the scripts
"since there is nothing like that in Debian yet". Either the existing
packages are hard to find, or they are missing some features (maybe
non-dependency on python, or simplicity) that my scripts have.
Experience says that the fact that the file controlling "package foo
goes into distribution bar" is in the very same directory with the foo
package files makes pool management extremely easy.
Greetings
Marc
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