[Pkg-openldap-devel] Re: the .org proposal or "join forces"

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 12:59:32PM +0100, Matthijs Mohlmann wrote:
> Until now I see two people that are willing to maintain OpenLDAP, Russ
> Allbery and me. And Torsten is eventually willing to upload it to the
> Debian archive.

> Ok, what I wanted done for this package is:
> - - Move to a patch system like dpatch or quilt
> - - Move to dh_install instead of copying around files.
> - - Understand how the maintainer scripts work in detail.
> - - GnuTLS patch for the 2.3.* version. (And make the patch generic so
> that newer versions of OpenLDAP doesn't require a large modification to
> the patch)

> There is probably more that needs to be done, but I can't remember
> myself more, so please add to the TODO list. :)

> I moved already to the dpatch system (I am pretty familiar with it, but
> if quilt is preferred please say so), I have made a start with the move
> to dh_install.

Ugh, dpatch is *such* a pain.  Quilt is definitely better, though all patch
management systems interact irritatingly with SCMs, AFAICT. :/

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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