Ben Collins wrote: > > It doesn't matter if it's user-friendly. The DBS package format is not > > developer-friendly. > > But it's maintainer friendly, and that is far more useful for us to have > good packages.
I was using developer in the sense of "debian developer". However, friendlyliness for users is equally important. > FWIW, before I started using a DBS based source format, I sat down many > times to try and upgrade my packages to new upstream source and was so > frustrated with forward porting patches that it sat for weeks or even > months at a time before I got enough time/energy to do so. Example: > getting openldap2 ready took all of 30 minutes. This included forward > porting each patch. With the old format, I would have either manually went > throught the diff.gz, or run the patch and went through each .rej. My time > was saved, which makes the package more up-to-date, better maintained, and > needs less attention. I'll bet I can get better results using cvs than are possible with DBS. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]