pbuilder maintenance (ITA)

[Junichi Uekawa]

"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
> 
> -- 
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>                         Mattia Rizzolo
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