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

[From: Andrew Flegg]

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.

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? Any other reason I'm missing?

Cheers,

Andrew

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