Before commenting any further, I must be honest that I (still) never built KDE itself, but always "small" packages. Nontheless, I have been trying to understand CDBS before... and I was lucky enough to be on time for dh.
On Wednesday 09 March 2011 15:23:00 Modestas Vainius wrote: > Hello, > > In my opinion, it is time to move away from pkg-kde-tools/qt-kde-team/1/* > which is based on CDBS. As most of you know, I wholeheartedly dislike CDBS > for a couple reasons. In short: [snip] > 3) So finally, I would rather spend my time doing actual work (packaging) > than reading cdbs internals or waiting until it wastes time while I'm > doing test builds. Fully and wholeheartdly agree on this. > Now there is dh(1) sequencer. It's pretty nice because: > > 1) User interface is pretty straightforward. In particular > override_dh_command targets are nice and `dh $@ --extra-option1 > --extra-option2` command line interface for options is fine too. Agree. [snip] > dhmk design goals: [big snip] I really like them, although I must admit that I have little knowledge of makefiles (wich is easily fixable, as my job/NMUs/etc stuff has been showing me), although I don't have any perl experience... and I don't plan to have it in the near future. > Therefore, I would like to see Qt/KDE packages getting converted to dhmk > [2]. Unless somebody has to offer something better, they are welcome to. > But personally, I no longer see "sticking to CDBS" as an option. While > qt-kde- team/2/* is not perfect, I tried to decouple it from tight bound > with perl while adhering to the best successful practises established by > dh(1). As for me, I really like the idea. But once again, I may not be the most suitable person to say this. Kinds regards, Lisandro. -- Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It just happens to be very selective about who it decides to make friends with. Unknown - http://www.linfo.org/q_unix.html Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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