From: Lucas Nussbaum Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:47:01 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Recommend git-bp instead of cvs-bp, and cowbuilder instead of pbuilder-uml. Thanks... X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=commitdiff_plain;h=18bdf528f207d255e4343b68d373ff37540476ad;p=developers-reference.git Recommend git-bp instead of cvs-bp, and cowbuilder instead of pbuilder-uml. Thanks to Osamu Aoki and Andreas Rönnquist for the patch! Closes: #741269 --- diff --git a/tools.dbk b/tools.dbk index 70514dc..7eeb567 100644 --- a/tools.dbk +++ b/tools.dbk @@ -212,17 +212,17 @@ packages. The following packages help with the package building process, general driving dpkg-buildpackage as well as handling supporting tasks. -
-<systemitem role="package">cvs-buildpackage</systemitem> +
+<systemitem role="package">git-buildpackage</systemitem> -cvs-buildpackage provides the -capability to inject or import Debian source packages into a CVS repository, -build a Debian package from the CVS repository, and helps in integrating +git-buildpackage provides the +capability to inject or import Debian source packages into a Git repository, +build a Debian package from the Git repository, and helps in integrating upstream changes into the repository. -These utilities provide an infrastructure to facilitate the use of CVS by -Debian maintainers. This allows one to keep separate CVS branches of a package +These utilities provide an infrastructure to facilitate the use of Git by +Debian maintainers. This allows one to keep separate Git branches of a package for stable, unstable and possibly experimental distributions, along with the other benefits of a version control system. @@ -254,9 +254,8 @@ package's build-dependencies are correct, and to be sure that unnecessary and wrong build dependencies will not exist in the resulting package. -A related package is pbuilder-uml, -which goes even further by doing the build within a User Mode Linux -environment. +A related package is cowbuilder, +which speeds up the build process using COW filesystem on any standard Linux filesystem.