On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 09:48:41 (CEST), Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Am 26.04.2010 09:39, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: >> I do understand that some find short-form dh7 easier to read than CDBS. > > It's just a matter of taste. Before dh7 was introduced I was also in > favour of CDBS, but the new override_* rules really got me. ;)
Well, IME the time required to understand a piece of code (be it upstream code or packaging scripts) does have direct influence on the probability that new contributors start working on the code. I therefore think that readability and understandability should be an important criteria for writing packaging scripts. >> But is that enough reason for making it mandatory for new packages? >> So the (proposed) plan is to abandon CDBS, but tolerate it temporarily? > > I think we shouldn't make anything really mandatory. IMHO it does not > really help anyone but scares away the members with strong preferences > for on or the other build system, e.g. Jonas. I'm also very happy that Jonas does a lot and great work inside pkg-multimedia, I therefore fully respect his preference and style of work. It seems that cdbs allows Jonas to be very productive, which is a great benefit for the packages he is working on. I just hope that his style of work doesn't mean that no one else but Jonas touches the package anymore. > Maybe we should just *recommend* a packaging style but still tolerate > the others, as they are also perfectly valid to get things done. I'd also love to see a *recommended* packaging style that every team member can work with for new packages. If particular, more complex packages benefit from not following the recommendation, then so be it. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers