On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 11:04:11 (CEST), Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >>Is it really too much that simple things like 'build && clean' leave a >>'clean' working directory?! > > I believe that I could make a CDBS snippet that cleans up patches and > .pc dir at clean time when in a git. > > Applying the patches at build time should not be necessary, as dpkg > handles that itself. > > Such snippet - like most of CDBS - would *not* depend on CDBS managing > debhelper too, so should be usable also together with short-form > debhelper v7. > > I believe that would help the point of usability, as then only once > initially something odd would need doing. Would that be interesting?
This sounds like a great idea to me. In essence, this restores the old invariant that running 'debclean' restores a working directory that is ready to be worked on with VCS commands. Moreover, this approach "if (and only if) in a vcs, unapply and remove .pc", could (and probably should) be implemented in other clean rules (read: non-cdbs managed packages) as well. With this invariant, I can imagine to work on "Format 3.0 (quilt)" packages. >> Side note, I see that there are some really interesting cdbs make >> snippets, e.g., the upstream.mk rules etc. I understand that they are >> still pretty much in flux. Could you imagine to propose a stabilized >> version (or a subset of them) for dpkg-dev? > > It seems to me that dpkg-dev is Perl-based. CDBS is make-based, so as I > see it dpkg-dev could adopt ideas only, not actual implementation. Hm, scripts/licensecheck2dep5 is perl. As it is implemented as a wrapper around licensecheck, perhaps it should be submitted for the devscripts package? Or even integrated into the licensecheck script itself? AFAIUI, it is not intended to be used directly; instead, copyright-check.mk uses it. TBH, I don't understand why you didn't implement all of the debian/stamp-copyright-check in scripts/licensecheck2dep5. Since this target does not really contribute to the actual building of packages, I don't see why you implemented it in cdbs in the first place. To me, I feel this rather belongs into the devscripts package and shouldn't be run via debian/rules but directly via some dedicated helper tool by the packager. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
