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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: ANN: tla-buildpackage
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: ANN: tla-buildpackage |
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Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:59:07 +0100 |
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:09:15AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> Andrew Suffield <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >> I today uploaded tla-buildpackage to unstable (it should show up
> >> shortly). Its features are:
> >
> > Does this do anything which arch-buildpackage, tla, and tla-load-dirs
> > don't already do between them? Aside from importing a .dsc (which
> > would take about half a dozen lines of shell), I can't see anything here.
>
> It does, in fact, use tla_load_dirs internally (and depends on it).
>
> That's not to say that what tla-buildpackage does is not possible
> without the package; of course it is. tla-buildpackage makes it far
> easier. One could, of course, maintain a directory tree containing
> Arch-format patch files by hand. It's a lot easier to use tla to do
> this task for you, though.
>
> It automates many tasks that would otherwise be cumbersome and
> error-prone. When importing a .dsc, it takes care to do things the
> "tla way" using tla_load_dirs and merging between branches. It's even
> possible to handle conflicts in an automated way in this case, and it
> does so. When importing an upstream source, it handles two different
> ways of taring it up, and can also import directly from a directory.
>
> Log messages are automatically generated where sensible. Changes are
> automatically committed where sensible.
>
> tla-buildpackage will fetch the upstream sources from the tla archive
> and build an orig.tar.gz for you if necessary.
>
> All the programs keep configs for each Debian and upstream version
> up-to-date.
>
> tla-buildpackage also is licensed under the GPL and packaged up for
> Debian. It has detailed usage instructions (more even than
> cvs-buildpackage). arch-buildpackage has none of these.
So the answer to my original question would be a "no", then?
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