On Wednesday, March 07, 2018 07:01:42 AM Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2018-03-06 23:27, Hector Oron wrote: > > I vaguely remember discussing some design with few involved people at > > DC15 to overhaul the whole Debian Build infrastructure. However > > nothing happened and we are still maintaining last century Perl > > spaguetti we inherited from those days, but it had nothing to do with > > bikesheds. If you are interested, I could share those ideas with you > > but I leave that for another reply or thread. > > FWIW, I have rewritten the buildd side in Python > (https://salsa.debian.org/pkern/pybuildd) and am currently waiting for > that to be deployed. There were concerns about how DSA wanted this to be > packaged (essentially not at all). Replacing the buildd side with > something relatively simple to understand is somewhat a prerequisite to > change the wanna-build side...
The name is one letter off of a major tool used to build python packages in Debian (pybuild). Could you use a name that was more distinctive (maybe buildd-py)? Scott K
