Hi all, I'll reply as a (not very active) devscripts maintainer. On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 08:10:31PM +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > In my POV the ideal situation would be: > - debian-goodies contains scripts which are useful for users and > developers comparably > - devscripts contains scripts mostly related to development > - devscripts could depend on debian-goodies if it uses tools from it, > but preferable not the other way round.
I generally agree with this POV. Just to be a bit more precise and sure
we all agree with the principles: with "developer" here we mean "Debian
developer".
Then, regarding mutual dependencies, I would say that debian-goodies
_must_ not have a dependency on devscripts: if the dependencies among
the two become mutual, than it would be pointless to have two different
packages in the first place.
> We could create a joined team to maintain debian-goodies and devscripts,
> either in two repositories where each of the team members would have
> commit access or in one repository (probably even better ;).
One of two repositories is a technical decision which is more related to
the actual VCS we use than to the decision about whether to join the
teams or not. (SCNR: we can move to git and have one repository for
devscripts and one for debian-goodies, owned by a common alioth group.)
> In the long run it would make sense to replace the crossings in
> debian-goodies with the tools which are similar with the tools
> from devscripts and in return remove them from devscripts (if the
> criterias above are met).
Absolutely.
> Just on a side note: I'm never sure if debian-goodies is a good name,
> because before I was told about it I never stumbled about it and for
> such a name I would never have searched.
It's a historical name a bit hard to change now, but surely we can
transition to a better name if we find one. The best guess that comes to
my mind is "debianutils", but is already taken (by an Essential) package
... how about debianutils-extra?
> And another side note to the other devscripts maintainers: Maybe
> we should invite Raphael to join our team? ;)
Sure!
Cheers.
--
Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7
z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/
Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie
sempre uno zaino ...........| ..: |.... Je dis tu à tous ceux que j'aime
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
