[Pkg-ace-devel] Re: Switching to dpatch

[Raphael Bossek]

> I had not enough time this week to switch the existing packages to
> dpatch, and I won't be able to work on this until monday.
I'll start at once with that issue. ACE is now prio1 on my TODO list.

> If anything here is wrong, please let me know.
All points are right.

> Now, I have two questions :
> 1. Do you know why 20-reactors-makefiles.dpatch is so big (40 Mb) ?
I did not count the number of generated GNUmakefiles but there are many.
Those GNUmakefiles are also not too small. I think they consume a lot.

> 2. Your previous modifications to debian/rules to have make pass
>     -DACE_NDEBUG -DACE_USE_RCSID to cpp were removed. Is this
>     intentional ?
Yes, until we have -dbg packages. I prefer to have ACE packages with
debug information instead of need to recompile ACE again for development
purposes later.
I think we need support for -dbg packages.

> Also, debian.features has rwho=1, while it is not being built AFAIK.
Yes. I tried to test my MPC modifications with all options I know.

> If my analysis of how you're using dpatch and MPC is not completely
> wrong, and if you are busy at the beginning of the next week, I'm still
> okay to port these changes myself. Otherwise, you may need this
> information (answering your mail with two options):
I will start in 1h with ACE.

> 1.1) I've been using quilt so far to manage patches. Changes to dpatch
> is quite straightforward.
> 1.2) I've made a preliminary conversion to dpatch. They are available at
>       http://thomas.g.girard.free.fr/ace/dpatch but need rework. Indeed,
>       some of them could be folded, and they need to be renumbered:
>       third patch is debian.diff.
> 1.3) The source used is a slightly modified version of the latest beta
>       kit to have correct timestamps. It is available from the Debian
>       package page for ACE.
I will try this.

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Raphael Bossek

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