On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > You're effectively asking for the interface to a Debian source package > to be redefined so that every package must be built twice: once to > discover its control file, and then again to actually build the > binaries.
This would be incredibly useful for moving towards a world of automatic packaging based on whatever metadata upstream is already providing for other package management formats. https://summit.debconf.org/debconf14/meeting/25/debdry-debian-dont-repeat-yourself/ http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2014/debconf14/webm/debdry_Debian_Dont_Repeat_Yourself.webm https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticPackagingTools -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
