Bug#981913: ITP: ognibuild -- Wrapper with common interface for invoking any kind of build tool

[Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org>]

Hi,

On 2021-02-05 04:11, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> * Package name    : ognibuild
>   Version         : 0.0.1
>   Upstream Author : Jelmer Vernooij
> * URL             : https://github.com/jelmer/ognibuild
> * License         : GPL
>   Programming Lang: Python
>   Description     : Wrapper with common interface for invoking any kind of build tool
> 
> Ognibuild is a simple wrapper with a common interface for invoking any kind of
> build tool.
> 
> The ideas is that it can be run to build and install any source code directory
> by detecting the build system that is in use and invoking that with the correct
> parameters.

Just curious: does it share code/logic with debhelper? AFAIK, debhelper
also applies many heuristics to build/install packages.

> It can also detect and install missing dependencies.

Do you mean Debian packages?

Best,
Andrius