On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 05:27:04PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 07:16:13PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > This means you can't build the package by hand with standard unix tools > -- at the very least you need git installed, and if other VC systems > are to be supported, you need them too. Changes in repository formats > will presumably result in versioned dependencies too. > > This is slightly worse than the case for existing patch management tools > in that most of those can be dealt with by hand; though cdbs and to a > lesser extent debhelper can't be quite as easily replicated I guess.
A similar problem arises with Format: 2.0 packages as well if the user hasn't bzip2 (unlikely) or lzma (likely) installed and tries to unpack a source package built with them. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
