[Quilt-dev] Hackweek project: make quilt a noarch package

[Jean Delvare]

Hi all,

Suse is having Hackweek VI [1] this week. My project this time will be 
to turn quilt into a noarch package [2]. The only part of quilt which 
needs to be built for the target arch is the backup-files helper, which 
accounts for about 6.8% of the total source code (not counting the 
build-related files; bash scripts account for 77.5% and perl scripts for 
15.7%).

This has already been discussed in the past [3], in particular by Debian 
folks who have already been replacing backup-files by a bash 
implementation [4] in their quilt package.

Obviously I will start from Martin Quinson's patch again, to which I 
will apply my own suggested improvements [5]. Then I plan to setup a 
performance test bench on several machines, testing several use cases, 
to evaluate the actual impact on performance. According to the previous 
discussions, performance is the real issue, and this is where I intend 
to invest my work time. 

I will post the results here once I have them.

[1] http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Hackweek
[2] https://features.opensuse.org/311072
[3] http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg01369.html
[4] http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg01137.html
[5] http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg01152.html

-- 
Jean Delvare
Suse L3