[Dctrl-tools-devel] initial thoughts
Jon Bernard
jbernard at debian.org
Thu Nov 8 13:28:15 UTC 2007
* Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <antti-juhani at kaijanaho.fi> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 10:02:02PM -0500, Jon Bernard wrote:
> > 1. First, how come all archs are at version 2.12 except sparc, hppa,
> > and arm? I didn't see any FTBFS bugs, are they just waiting to be
> > built or is there some other reason?
>
> According to
> http://people.debian.org/~igloo/status.php?packages=dctrl-tools
> they are all "building". According to
> http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=&pkg=dctrl-tools
> they have all finished a successful build.
>
> Probably it's just that uploading is currently impossible due to the
> ftp-master problem.
Ahh, Ok.
> > 2. #440348 is marked done, should that be closed? Or is that
> > pending testing or inclusion into all archs, or something else?
>
> The problem is that some arches still contain the non-fixed package in
> unstable. Not our problem.
I suspected that.
> > 3. I think a good place to start would be updating/maintaining the
> > debian/ directory. That will allow me to get a good handle on how
> > things are built and how everything works.
>
> If you plan to do any reorg there, try to do it separately from fixing
> bugs, so it is easy to verify that the reorg doesn't introduce new ones.
> Please post nontrivial patches before pushing.
No problem.
> > 4. There definitely needs to be a tutorial of some sort. The man pages
> > are thorough, but a bit confusing to a user who has never used
> > grep-dctrl before and just wants a quick do-this-to-make-it-work
> > example (or I'm just an idiot, that possibity always exists). I think a
> > tutorial and manpage updates would be time well spent, and it would knock
> > out a few wishlist bugs at the same time.
>
> Have fun :)
>
> I'm probably going to continue going through the sources looking for
> sloppy code. I have a slight refactor in mind that would make the code
> better and also allow one other tool that I've been planning for years.
>
> My current thought is to do a package freeze sometime around New Year so
> the package is in the best shape possible before lenny freezes. New
> development would take place in experimental after that (and if lenny is
> delayed for a long time, we can always move it back to unstable). Any
> comments?
That sounds like a fine plan to me, I'd better get to work ;)
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