Seeking consensus on dh

Posted Jun 7, 2019 17:33 UTC (Fri) by rweikusat2 (subscriber, #117920)
In reply to: Seeking consensus on dh by smurf
Parent article: Seeking consensus on dh

You may disagree with something but that's certainly not related to what I was writing about (namely, working with Debian packages doesn't become significantly more difficult because there's no enforced, standard auxiliary toolset for building one).

Seeking consensus on dh

Posted Jun 7, 2019 18:29 UTC (Fri) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link] (2 responses)

Working with one or ten Debian package? no. Working with one or ten thousand? definitely.

It's fairly easy to automatically determine which build steps are "special" in a package if that package uses dh. Anything else? not so much.

Seeking consensus on dh

Posted Jun 7, 2019 21:05 UTC (Fri) by rweikusat2 (subscriber, #117920) [Link] (1 responses)

Assuming that building a package takes 10s (unrealistic), someone doing nothing but "building packages" 24x7 would need more than a day to build "10,000 packages". A project of this size would necessarily need to be handled by a fairly large group of people. Also, there aren't "10,000" different toolchains for package building, the number is probably less than 10.

OTOH, feel free to believe whatever you want. I have a forked package I need to work on ...

Seeking consensus on dh

Posted Jun 7, 2019 21:40 UTC (Fri) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> Assuming that building a package takes 10s (unrealistic), someone doing nothing but "building packages" 24x7 would need more than a day to build "10,000 packages".

Um, that's what automated build farms are for...?