[maemo-developers] More autobuilder problems (armel only)

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 08:18:41PM +0100, Andrew Flegg wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 08:08:37PM +0100, Andrew Flegg wrote:
> >>
> >> https://garage.maemo.org/builder/diablo/vim_7.0/sources/
> >
> > It looks like a native Debian package (i.e. the debian/ thing is inside
> > the tarball).  How hard would it be to get mud-builder produce
> > non-native Debian packages (i.e. .orig.tar.gz + .diff.gz + .dsc)?
> 
> It /should/ be relatively trivial. I'm not sure, OTTOMH, whether it'd
> need any cleverness to handle upstream Debian sources which will
> already have a .diff.gz and then may have further Maemo patches.

Hm.  This is slowly drifting into the "let's just use a Distributed
Version Control System" territory.

> Apart from being slightly more consistent with "the Debian way", I
> suppose the key advantage is that it's potentially easier for someone
> to try and apply the .diff.gz to a different upstream source if the
> original maintainer gets hit by a bus?

Or is just busy/on vacation.

I also think that having a Maemo diff would make porting to new Maemo
versions easier: you get to see all the places that needed
Maemo-specific modifications.  Hm.  Suddenly I'm not sure there are any
advantages over just trying to rebuild the already-patched source tree,
and fixing errors on the go.

> Any other reason I'm missing?

The other reason (at least for Debian) is that when you fix packaging
bugs, you only need to upload the .diff.gz and therefore save bandwidth.
I don't know if this is currently applicable to Maemo, but if supported,
it would help people with low bandwidth trying to debug package build
problems on the autobuilder.

Marius Gedminas
-- 
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
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