On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 06:42:55PM +0000, Joachim Breitner wrote:
I would think it saves us some work this way.
Why's that?
I would like to fix a bug in xmonad, but when I build xmonad, I have to manually upload a new xmonad-contrib packages (involving changelog bumps, re-generating control, building, uploading – all routine, but still troulbe and a time waster). If we could (cheaply, or even automatically) do binNMUs, this wouldn’t be such a big deal.
Right, so which is better depends on whether it is easier to do 1 source upload, or to trigger a binNMU on every arch.
In some cases you'll want to rebuild some or all of the dependent packages for testing, of course.
We'd need to generate the strict binary-deps on the Cabal package at build time rather than in "debian/rules update-generated-files".
Yes, but that’d be possible? After all, it’s similar to what dpkg-shlibdebs does, right?
Yes, it's certainly possible.
Thanks Ian