Spice Trade

[Enrico Zini]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:31:34AM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote:

> One important decision prior to start, should we use debhelper (i'm openly for
> it), and, should we use dpatch or something like that or does it make more
> sense to use just .diff for that?
> 
> I know it's probably impossible that we all agree on that, but it would be
> nice to have a common way of doing things so that every package is not a whole
> new world. Ideas? 

Speaking for my experience.

I like what I write to be easily self-explanatory, now and in the
future.  In this frame I got to like CDBS, as it works by saying "do
things as usual, except this".  This makes it very easy and quick to see
(and as a consequence not forget) where the packaging is doing something
special and why.

Indeed CDBS lets you focus on your special packaging needes but also
forget about the policy, so I would advise that people using CDBS enroll
as AMs, even if only with one applicant at a time, so that they
periodically get a reharse of policy and packaging practices :)

So, CDBS plus something like dpatch to manage changes done to upstream
code, so that these changes are clearly isolated and given a name that
could be referred to when talking.

Now, this is my experience, which however stands more as theory rather
than practice, because I haven't (yet) had the pleasure of being part of
a large, long lived and diverse group of maintainers.


Ciao,

Enrico

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