Package: cdbs Version: 0.4.100 Severity: grave Justification: zero documentation, wasting hours of development time, causing many bugs
I've just wasted multiple hours trying to fix up the mess in an NMU (#652369). That bug itself isn't necessarily caused by CDBS itself, but a lot of the time I've spent trying to fix it definitely is. I've just had to update the dvbstreamer package's local copy of libtool to make it build binaries in a current unstable chroot. After fighting through the CDBS code to decipher how to do that (yay for total lack of documentation!), I've found DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_LIBTOOL that seems to do what I need. Unfortunately, it doesn't take copies of any of the existing upstream files to be able to put them back during a "debian/rules clean" run. That means that dpkg-source v3 (quilt) bitches and refuses to run again once I've done a build due to uncommitted changes. Hence, I can't tweak things and re-run dpkg-buildpackage/debuild while debugging things (as already complained about elsewhere this week). I've looked in vain for any way to make this work, but cannot find one. Therefore, I'm about to upload my new NMU with working packages but (as far as I'm concerned) a buggy build system that will reliably fail to build twice in a row. If this wasn't an NMU and therefore I wasn't trying to keep changes minimal, I would be fixing the package more deeply by repackaging it without CDBS. Please remove this under-documented and badly-designed rubbish from the archive. It's been responsible for bad maintainer behaviour and lots of RC bugs in the past, and I can see this happening again and again in future. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash cdbs depends on no packages. Versions of packages cdbs recommends: ii autotools-dev 20110511.1 Versions of packages cdbs suggests: ii devscripts 2.11.2 -- no debconf information -- 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/20111222004552.ga16...@einval.com
