Hmm... I have been a debian developer for about two months now, but those two months have been very busy in my personal life. My only contribution to Debian so far has been a couple of sketchy web pages, and some debating on -policy.
Determined to get a move on and start packaging, last night I re-read a variety of bits of documentation, and ended up more confused than ever. Various developers have packaged up a wide variety of tools which they find make packaging easier for them. It is becoming rather hard for a new developer to see where to start. There's debstd, but I see that's deprecated. There's debhelper, which is being currently updated, and I see quite a few packages which use it. And then there's the school of thought (Manoj's I think, but that may be slander) that you should do it yourself. And there's manoj's own cvs-buildpackage which appears to be orthogonal to the above. There's the devscripts package, which includes dch, build and release. And (possibly) finally, there's dupload. The new-maintainers how-to on the web site appears to be using the devscripts set of scripts. I realise that to some extent it's going to be a matter of opinion which tools one uses, but would anyone like to illuminate a bit how one should choose? I'm quite inclined to use cvs-buildpackage, and I already have some knowledge of CVS, but it seems that cvs-buildpackage is expecting to import and already packaged package.. Thanks for any light anyone can throw, Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
