-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 02:27:32PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >[sent again, to bugreport this time] > >On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 06:05:53PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: >>also sprach Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> [2009.02.27.1743 +0100]: >>> Please consider shipping the attached CDBS snippet with topgit: >>> >>> 1) install it as /usr/share/cdbs/1/topgit.mk >> >>Thanks for the bug report! >> >>I'll cut you a deal: I'll do this if you write me a brief >>README.quilt for inclusion, which explains how to use topgit and >>cdbs, ideally with an example and in a way that allows people to >>figure out what happens when and why. I would find this very useful. > >Something like this: git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/cdbs-skel ?
I am quite interested in your opinion on above referenced README.source - - as I am currently preparing applying that file (or variations of it) to about 80 different source package officially packaged for Debian. >>> 2) have the binary "topgit" package suggest cdbs >> >>I will have to think about that. TopGit is not about Debian >>packaging, but cdbs is. I am not sure I like this relation, but >>I will think about it. > >...which is the reason I propose to _suggest_ (not recommend): >Something that makes more use of your package, without being relevant >for most users. Alternatively, you could avoid shipping that makefile snippet designed specifically for packaging, if you really want your package to not be tied to packaging. Or at least ship it only as an example file (which no package should rely on, forcing all packages to then embed a copy of your snippet). Or you could provide a separate binary package, like pkg-topgit, containing the current makefile snippet and the README.source useful for any package, and my proposed CDBS-specific makefile snippet. You could then have that binary package (and not the main topgit binary package) recommend make and quilt, and suggest cdbs. >>> ...you should probably have the package suggest quilt as well, but >>> that really is a separate issue - and I am too eager to play some >>> more with TopGit to file a separate bugreport about it :-P >> >>Consider that done with commit 6d8cb97. >> >>http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/topgit.git;a=commitdiff;h=6d8cb9730c6ec32fd56d8b0eb254ac0f835ec475 You should probably suggest make as well :-) ...or tell me if you find it ok that I do minor polishing like that myself - now that I notice that it is in collab-maint where I have already write access :-D (then time will tell if we have same understanding of the term "minor") - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmqpHIACgkQn7DbMsAkQLgw+wCeNrywCeql+RSKm4IuSqv95RvV basAn2USXnl3/Ir9XLCGD+YymYvYvbBe =dwoV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
