X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=developers-reference.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=tools.dbk;h=7eeb56704a62541e9322c2bd56ae9748643fd17b;hp=c2b26a1eb6fb8211f8d57234b55a2662c4bd4d53;hb=20ea8ac97f9556ff2f9198d393710f413184d4a8;hpb=39f9d44a972a229e8d148d5bc9adc5210e5c7c60 diff --git a/tools.dbk b/tools.dbk index c2b26a1..7eeb567 100644 --- a/tools.dbk +++ b/tools.dbk @@ -193,24 +193,6 @@ the package entirely functional and Policy-compliant. -
-<systemitem role="package">yada</systemitem> - -yada is another packaging helper tool. -It uses a debian/packages file to auto-generate -debian/rules and other necessary files in the -debian/ subdirectory. The -debian/packages file contains instruction to build -packages and there is no need to create any Makefile -files. There is possibility to use macro engine similar to the one used in -SPECS files from RPM source packages. - - -For more informations see YADA site. - -
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<systemitem role="package">equivs</systemitem> @@ -230,17 +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. @@ -272,9 +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.