What to use in packaging

[Bas Wijnen]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 09:26:11AM +0100, Isaac Clerencia wrote:
> On Thursday 19 January 2006 09:17, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > After reading
> > http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/dpatch_dbs_etc_etc_etc_etc_considered_h
> >armful-2005-10-13-06-35.html and listening to all you have said in the list,
> > I think the best is not to use any patching system (svn will keep track of
> > the changes for us). It also seems that people seems to prefer to
> > debhelper, although there is no unanimity in this. Shall we go for
> > debhelper then?

Sounds good to me.

> Do we really need to agree in this? I mean, I guess small groups of people 
> will maintain each package so as long as they agree everything it's ok.

I think it would be good to have a common way to do things.  It doesn't mean
that it's better or anything, it means that once you got used to it, all
packages we maintain look sort of the same.  Of course if you have a well
maintained package which uses a different method, you could consider not
maintaining it together here.  But I think that for the packages we do
maintain, a standard way of building would be good.

> Personally, I use CDBS + simple-patchsys to maintain wesnoth and bygfoot and 
> it works great. If we don't have upstream code in the SVN (and I guess we 
> shouldn't), a patch system is required and quilt rules :) 

For pioneers, I have a debian directory in the upstream cvs.  I'm the one
updating it (I'm also upstream), and it works fine.  It isn't distributed in
releases, and that is also good.

I don't think it's a good idea to argue over which tools are best for building
packages.  The important thing to agree on is if we should have a standard
build system, and if so, what it will be.  I think most of us agree that we
should (but let us know if you don't agree and didn't say so yet).  I'm not
sure if we have consensus over what system it should be.  I guess we'll hear
in the reactions to Miriam's e-mail.  If it doesn't become clear, we may have
a vote on it.  (I just love Debian's voting system, it's the only one I know
which does the Right Thing(tm). :-) )

Thanks,
Bas

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