[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Common practices

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Mon Apr 12 06:33:59 UTC 2010


On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:37:28PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think we should discuss and update the common practices section on our
> wiki. Current situation:
> 
> * git is used as version control system
>   * mozilla-devscripts is used for packaging 
>   * cdbs is recommended 
>   * cdbs' simple-patchsys is recommended as patch system (if one is
>     required) 
>   * a machine-readable debian/copyright (DEP-5) is preferred 
> 
> I want to update it to:
> 
> * git is used as version control system
>   * mozilla-devscripts is used for packaging
>   * dh 7 or cdbs is recommended
>   * dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format is recommended and therefore quilt as
>     patch system
>   * a machine-readable debian/copyright (DEP-5) is preferred 
> 
> Any objections?

Drop cdbs recommendation.

Mike



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