On 2015-04-11 07:14, Niels Thykier wrote: > [...] > >> Stretch is a two year time frame though, which makes me kinda sad. Thanks >> for you effort though, keep up the amazing work! If I understand correctly, >> if >> it would have been something for stretch, either A or B would have been >> decided already and partly implemented, right? > > I believe we can implement this for Stretch if we wanted to. Unlike > multi-arch, build-profiles (etc.), ddebs are already supported by our > (14-days-from-now-new) stable release. Namely, > > * All the groundwork requirements (pkg:arch dependencies etc.) are > already covered by previous efforts. > - I.e. everything that would require a full-cycle for support are > already done in time for Jessie >
Hah, I take that inside the parentheses back. It seems that APT is *not* very happy with the generated "pkg:arch" dependencies. Fortunately, this syntax is not required for ddebs. > [...] > * Known list of tools where support is (very) "nice-to-have", but not a > strict blocker. > - lintian - though people on d-mentors might disagree. ;) > - reprepro and similar > - others? > [...] As noted on IRC, mentors.debian.net / debexpo will probably need to be updated too (at least if we go the "ddebs" route). Thanks, ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5528cb44.4030...@thykier.net
