Hello, I have been working on two changes for dpkg that I plan to merge sometimes next week. Until then I would be glad to have some feedback, reviews.
1/ Makefile snippets for use in debian/rules http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/hertzog/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=pu/makefile-snippets dpkg-dev will start providing some makefile snippets in /usr/share/dpkg/ to retrieve some common values that can be useful in debian/rules. It includes variables returned by dpkg-buildflags, dpkg-architecture and dpkg-vendor. Should I also include some variables corresponding to changelog related variables ? If yes, we should certainly pick a set compatible with CDBS. DEB_SOURCE_PACKAGE DEB_VERSION DEB_NOEPOCH_VERSION DEB_UPSTREAM_VERSION DEB_DISTRIBUTION Note that the makefiles have been written in a way so that they do not result in useless forks for unused variables (thanks to Mike Hommey for the idea) and still ensure we run each command only once even if a variable is referenced multiple times. I have also decided to not export the build flags in the environment by default. If the caller really wants this, he should set DPKG_EXPORT_BUILDFLAGS. 2/ dpkg-source --record-changes http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/hertzog/dpkg.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/pu/master As discussed on debian-devel at the end of may, I have implemented some changes to source format 3.0 (quilt) so that a build fails if there are upstream changes which are not yet managed by quilt. Recording the change in a new quilt patch must now be done explicitly by the maintainer with dpkg-source --record-changes. This will require the user to give a patch name and an editor will be run to let the maintainer edit the patch header. It required some important restructuring of the source package build procedure so I would be glad to have some more people running with this. Also you might have some input on the new interface. 3/ You can test all those by building and installing dpkg with my test-build branch, it includes pu/multiarch/full, pu/master and pu/makefile-snippets. git clone git://anonscm.debian.org/users/hertzog/dpkg.git -b test-build 4/ We should really think of releasing 1.16.1 once those changes are merged. Guillem, do you have other things that you wanted to see merged for 1.16.1? This release will not block multiarch, since we can always release 1.16.2 to experimental in parallel if needed. I hope that we can tackle the remaining issues for multiarch during debconf. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110715191440.ga20...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com
