On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 11:50:35 +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > > Jon Dowland wrote: > > >Hi Laurent, thanks for the clarification â?? to ask a related > > >question. What's the worth of FPM on Debian? Especially given the > > >issues that Wouter has raised in the bug¹ > > > > > >¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=22;bug=688896 > > > > Quite, I'm concerned on that front too. Do we want to encourage or > > make it easier for people to use tools that don't care about our > > packaging policies? > > I would confess that I'm mainly using it to create RPM's at work. For > some users it's easier (and faster) to use fpm than starting to dig into > a specfile or a debian package. > > We already have checkinstall in the archive. The main difference here > with checkinstall is that fpm allows to package easily a complete tree, > I think that checkinstall requires some kind of 'make install' as it's > diverting some syscalls to track which files are installed. I know > nothing about the quality/policy compliance of the .deb generated by > checkinstall. > > I've opened a bug on the upstream bug tracker about using dpkg instead > of ar/tar directly.
Well TBH, an upstream that's creating a program to package stuff that cannot be bothered to read documentation about how stuff is done properly (because "you don't have time for this crap" [0]), does not inspire any confidence... There's other problematic stuff though, like hardcoded shared library dependencies w/o using dpkg-shlibdeps, or the injection of maintainer scripts to add ldconfig calls, that I've spotted after a very quick check. [0] <http://goo.gl/sWs3Z> (slides 17, 18) <https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm> (section "The Solution - FPM") Thanks to Wouter for pointing this out on debian-policy [1] [1] <https://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2013/01/msg00081.html> Thanks, Guillem -- 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/20130411135327.gb6...@gaara.hadrons.org
