Hi all, I took a bit of time to proceed to changes for the package libmath-matrixreal-perl but I wanted to get right my autopkgtest infrastructure, and life interleaved with commits. It /should/ be in better shape this time.
gregor herrmann, on 2020-05-22 18:16:07 +0200: > On Thu, 21 May 2020 19:12:23 +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: > > > > > I'd love to switch to dpt but its always so hard to switch from > > > "something that works" to "something that might work a bit differen but > > > its state of the art". I would welcome if someone would check our > > > scripts and turn them into wrappers around some dpt calls in case > > > there might be some additional functionality (sorry I never managed > > > to check dpt despite I probably should). > > dpt standing for Debian Perl packaging Tools, I would suppose a > > few built-in capabilities may be Debian Perl Team specific, but > > yes, a more generic automata could be interesting I guess. > > Indeed, there are some pkg-perl specifics in our tools, but yes, some > are probably useful for others, and in Debian we have a long > tradition of duplicating work :/ From my experience, this is not specific to the Debian project. Other projects may not have this tradition in place, but only because they are to young to have a long tradition anyway. > > Speaking of automation, I tried to run routine-update out of > > curiosity, and it dropped the debhelper-compat from level 13 to > > level 12. I was wondering if there would be concerns over > > moving too fast to newer debhelper-compat version, or if the > > latest and greatest is always the one recommended. In doubt I > > undid the the routine-update changes, for now. > > From a perl point of view: We have often been a bit slow and careful > not to switch to a new debhelper compat level too early, especially > when there are no gains for our type of packages. > > With debhelper 13 there are some nice improvements, so it makes sense > to use it IMO. Okay, I'll stick to it at least on Perl side. Thanks! Have a nice day :) -- Étienne Mollier <etienne.moll...@mailoo.org> Fingerprint: 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d Help find cures against the Covid-19 ! Give CPU cycles: * Rosetta@home: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ * Folding@home: https://foldingathome.org/
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