pbuilder maintenance (ITA)

[Junichi Uekawa]

Are things going well or is there any blocker?

At Tue, 30 Jun 2015 21:05:19 +0900,
Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> 
> 
> "RFA: pbuilder maintainership, request for help."
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.packages.pbuilder.devel/4820
> 
> dated back to September 2014, so yeah, I was hoping for someone to
> pick up, especially since NMUs are happening without updating git repo
> and if NMUs diverge too much from the main git repo, merging gets
> painful.
> 
> 
> 
> At Thu, 25 Jun 2015 06:37:09 +0000,
> Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> > 
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> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:10:21PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > > Let me share something from the past.
> > > 
> > > I had itches to add simple command line UI to support multiple
> > > distributions .... then my momentum was lost when I found to use
> > > git-pbuilder as a wrapper.  So much for short introduction of myself.
> > 
> > umh? multiple distributions on the cmd line? I fail to see what would be the
> > point :)
> > 
> > > When I was involved, Junichi reminded me that the command line feature
> > > needs to be matched by the cowbuilder (his newer effort to speed up
> > > pbuilder), too.
> > > 
> > > The cowbuilder is faster and now used as default for git-buildpackage.
> > > It is provided by the cowdancer source.  It also needs love too.
> > 
> > well, i know cowbuilder, yet not as I know pbuilder. I started using pbuilder
> > years ago, it entered my workflow and I'm very lazy/slow at changing it. So I
> > just know nothing about cowbuilder.
> > Though I known that cowbuilder and pbuilder share the UI (since there are other
> > software that allow changing the builder but they don't change the parameters,
> > so i deduced the two builder shared the UI), i haven't though to pay attenction
> > to that.
> > I'll try to not touch the UI. But I guess pbuilder needs a lot more stuff than
> > changes in the UI.
> > 
> > 
> > Whatever, if you still have itches just file them as a bug, i think a handful
> > more won't change the huge view (even more after me closing old cruft..) :D
> > 
> > -- 
> > regards,
> >                         Mattia Rizzolo
> > 
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