I had this very same discussion with another packager and we came to the same conclusion: changing stuff around a bit to make uploading to multiple distributions easier, would greatly help packagers IMO.
One thing I would welcome, if possible, would be conditional build-deps, so that you can set different build-deps for Debian/Ubuntu for example. I'm saying this because my package for example depends on 'libappindicator-dev' in Ubuntu, but I can't set this dependency in Debian, because that package doesn't exist there (yet). Also, from what I've seen there are some packages which have different names in Ubuntu/Debian, so a conditional build-depends might make synchronisation of packages between different distributions a bit easier. Now, one could also check how many packages actually *do* have different build-depends fields in Ubuntu compared to Debian (not sure how I could do that) to see how useful of an addition this would be. For the changelog part, I thought *not* requiring a specific suite would also be a good compromise. Then, in the case that a suite isn't specified, each distribution would have a 'default' suite, where this package would be uploaded, in Debian it might make sense to set 'sid' to default and in Ubuntu, the current development version. Then, you only need to set a suite when you build the package for a specific suite, and can have the 'default' package the same for multiple distros. -- Best regards, Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Cristian Henzel -- 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/4de7a60d.2050...@b3r3.info
