[Debian-olpc-devel] packaging for Sugar

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 03:49:56PM -0500, David Farning wrote:
>On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 20:32 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
>> My plan is to first get my various CDBS customizations, currently 
>> stored in debian/cdbs of each package, incorporated into main CDBS.
>> 
>> Then I will look into writing debhelper plugins to do similar tasks, 
>> ideally making CDBS irrelevant.
>> 
>> In other words, I do not expect to drop CDBS in the near future.
>> 
>
>Do you have a time frame in mind for pushing your changes into the main 
>CDBS?

I can't say for sure - it might be a few months, but can easily take
longer: Apart from polishing the code itself to verify that it works in 
general (not only the way I use them myself) which is almost finished, I 
need also to document them, and then I need to convince my 
co-maintainers of the CDBS package that they are relevant for CDBS.

Is such vague and longish timeframe a problem for you?

I (co-)maintain 70+ packages, all of them using some of my unofficial 
CDBS extensions.  A recent bug in an extensions (copyright-check.mk) 
made me aware that it takes a _lot_ of tedious time to update each and 
every package.  So if it takes too long (for myself or for you) then 
there is also the alternative to make a cdbs-hacks package containing 
all of my extensions as-is, without documentation or approval of others.

So tell me your needs - I might be able to help. :-)


>I am concerned about the number of lines in the .diff.  As packages 
>flow downstream they tend to grow like snowballs;( The effort required 
>to merge and sync packages from upstream growth with the square of the 
>number of lines.

Ah, I never thought of it that way.  Thanks for pointing it out :-)


P.S.

Please don't cc me personally - I am subscribed to the list, and cc's 
confuse my email filters :-P

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