Am Sonntag, den 31.03.2013, 00:13 +0000 schrieb Ben Hutchings: > On Sat, 2013-03-30 at 22:49 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > Hi, > > > > devscripts ships a bunch of scripts to make the life of a Debian Package > > maintainer easier. Not every script in there is Debian packaging > > specific. Some of them are used on other non-Debian-based distributions. > > I was contacted [1] and asked if we could split the Debian packaging > > specific scripts from the rest. > > > > I like to keep only Debian packaging specific scripts in devscripts (see > > the list below). Where should we put the non Debian packaging specific > > scripts? Should we create a neutral project or are there other projects > > in which these scripts fit? > > There is no reason why Debian couldn't continue to be upstream for > these, but hosting on freedesktop.org might make them more visible to > other distributions. > > [...] > > Debian packaging specific scripts > > ================================= > [...] > > These might usefully be further divided into truly Debian-specific and > dpkg/apt-specific, at least in binary packages.
What would this additional split give us as advantage? Are there distributions that use dpkg/apt, but are not Debian derivatives? -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1364820113.3258.1.camel@deep-thought
