Spice Trade

[Miriam Ruiz]

Thanks for the link, I hadn't read it.

I'm for using debhelper and plain diff files (after reading and asking some
people, a versioning system seems to work better without using dpatch or
similar).

I'd like to hear pros and cons, because it would be nice to reach a decision
on this. I'd prefer to handle all the packages in a consistent way, so that we
all can work in them without having to be using 50 different tools, but if
somebody thinks this is a bad idea and each package should be treated
individually, I'd like to know the reasons too.

I'd like to make some http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Development/Guidelines or
something like that with some guidelines on how we should manage our projects,
and this should be one of the 1st decisions to make.

Another different point is, in case we decide going for the uniform way, what
to do about orphaned or programs already packaged that we decide to take care
of.

About svn, I don't have much experience with managing svn servers, just using
them. I'd prefer to delegate all the svn stuff on someone, if possible. Nobody
has said anything about Eddy Petrisor's suggestion of how to handle svn
repository, so I guess most of you agree with it.

Greetings,
Miry


 --- Andrew Vaughan <ajv-lists at netspace.net.au> escribió:

> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 07:52, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > Andrew Vaughan wrote:
> > > > > One important decision prior to start, should we use debhelper (i'm
> > > > > openly for it), and, should we use dpatch or something like that or
> > > > > does it make more sense to use just .diff for that?
> > > > >
> > > > > I know it's probably impossible that we all agree on that, but it
> > > > > would be nice to have a common way of doing things so that every
> > > > > package is not a whole new world. Ideas?
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > So, CDBS plus something like dpatch to manage changes done to
> > > > upstream code, so that these changes are clearly isolated and given a
> > > > name that could be referred to when talking.
> >
> > cdbs awful, especially those packages that operate on included tarballs.
> > And if we maintain all packages in SVN dpatch doesn't make sense either,
> > if one wants to revert a certain change it's a simple as reverting
> > a commit. So, I'm certainly in favour of debhelper.
> >
> > joeyh collected an IRC dialog, which summarises the flaws of cdbs and
> > dpatch very well:
> > http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/dpatch_dbs_etc_etc_etc_etc_considered
> >_harmful-2005-10-13-06-35.html
> 
> I take Colin's point about cdbs+dpatch making it harder to patch packages, 
> although surely that could be solved.  However thats an issue for the cdbs 
> maintainers.
> 
> My packaging experience is almost nil, so I'll defer to your experience.  
> 
> Andrew



		
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