please upload: pd-pdogg

[Felipe Sateler]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 13:02, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
>>
>> I see that some bugs (buils system, mostly) will require uploading all
>> (or most) of the pd externals. Can we do something to avoid that?
>>
> hmm, i'm not sure if i understand what you mean:
> i thought bugs can only be fixed by providing fixed versions.
> if a package is FTBFS because of  broken bulid system, then the only solution i
> see is to fix the build system and re-upload the package.
>
> the only alternative i see, would be to centralize the build system, e.g. by
> providing a common makefile snippet that would be used instead of upstream's
> build system.
>
> i started centralizing once with a "pd-pkg-tools" library, but it ended up as a
> cdbs snippet (while almost all of the packages in question right now use
> shortform dh).
> also the cdbs snippet does not replace upstream build system, but rather fixes
> debian specifics (e.g. make shlibdeps work nicely with the non-standard
> extension)
>
> i'm not opposed at all to using a central (separately maintained) makefile, but
> hans has spent a lot of time crafting the current (upstream) makefile to make it
> work with a wide range of systems.
> the current template for the (upstream) Makefile already fixes the kFreeBSD/hurd
> problems, but the packages in question have not been updated (upstream) to use
> the new template, so i decided to fix the problem using packaging possibilities.


This is the key part: for most pd externals, the makefile is
essentially the same. Does it make sense to centralize that? What do
others think?


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler