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Source-Depends? Autoreconf?

2009-05-02 Thread Marius Vollmer
Hi, here is some ghost spooking around in my head, and maybe you can help me put it to rest. The GNU build system makes a distinction between maintainers of a source package and the people who eventually install it. Essentially, GNU is producing a source distribution that is aiming for very high

Re: Source-Depends? Autoreconf?

2009-05-02 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 02:50:26PM +0300, Marius Vollmer wrote: > Making a Debian source package always felt cumbersome: dpkg-source just > tars up everything in front of it (I exaggerate, of course), and at > least I am not used to having to clean my source tree before making a > distribution tarb

Re: Source-Depends? Autoreconf?

2009-05-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Marius Vollmer [090502 13:50]: > Still, I feel that this area of what should and shouldn't be in a source > package is a bit under-addressed in Debian. (That is very likely only my > own ignorance. I learned the little I know about packaging in Maemo; > apologies might be in order for me speak

Re: Source-Depends? Autoreconf?

2009-05-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 02 May 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > First of all, you do not discuss the most common type of packages: do > not change the build-system, but just use it. This means autotools are > never called, neighter when preparing the package, nor when building the > package. Yeah, it is really com

Re: Bug#524787: ITP: unicorn -- Drivers and applications for the Bewan ADSL PCI ST and USB modems

2009-05-02 Thread Nick Leverton
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 03:49:46PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Nick Leverton (22/04/2009): > > Thanks for your interest in my IT(re)P and your comments. > > No problem. > > > Of the stated reasons for removal: > > > > > | Please remove unicorn: > > > | - mostly unused (2 in popcon for the b

Re: Source-Depends? Autoreconf?

2009-05-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I wold like to say that I do not really see the Degbian source package as a primary mode of development communication between Debian and the downstreams, as it is strictly a snapshot, and loses too much history. I think that people deriving code based on lines of development I ha