Re: I take debmake

1997-12-16 Thread Guy Maor
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With debmake, new functionality was added all the time, and was added into > the same debstd program, changing its behavior, and so different versions > could have widly differing results on the same package. > > With debstd, each individual program has a

Re: I take debmake

1997-12-15 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > With debmake, new functionality was added all the time, and was added into > the same debstd program, changing its behavior, and so different versions > could have widly differing results on the same package. > > With debstd, each individual program has a well-defined job, and

Re: I take debmake

1997-12-15 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Leutloff wrote: > > I don't believe that debhelper address one of Ian's main complaints at > > all. If I remeber correctly, that complaint was that when you use > > debmake (or debhelper), you end up with debian package source with > > non-deterministic behavior. Depending on the versio

Re: I take debmake

1997-12-15 Thread Rob Browning
Christian Leutloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > it's nice to have, but brings no advantages. If we change the > autoconfish thing we get the same different binaries as through > changing debhelper/debmake. It's IMHO only a different view but no > substantial change. And debhelper is working NOW -

Re: I take debmake

1997-12-15 Thread Christian Leutloff
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't believe that debhelper address one of Ian's main complaints at > all. If I remeber correctly, that complaint was that when you use > debmake (or debhelper), you end up with debian package source with > non-deterministic behavior. Depending on th

Re: I take debmake

1997-12-14 Thread Rob Browning
Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What about using debhelper rather than having another packaging suite? IIRC > Ian said that debmake was "broken" in some respects and that Debian should > have a decent packaging tool - IMO debhelper fits that nicely :-) I don't believe that debhelper

Re: I take debmake

1997-12-14 Thread Guy Maor
Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 08:45:27PM +0100, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > > [snip] > > I have taken over the maintenance of debmake (on a temporary basis). > > Some time ago, Ian said he was going to write a replacement for it, so I'm > > just going to

Re: I take debmake

1997-12-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 08:45:27PM +0100, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: [snip] > I have taken over the maintenance of debmake (on a temporary basis). > Some time ago, Ian said he was going to write a replacement for it, so I'm > just going to keep debmake frozen and will fix bugs if I receive suitab