pkgme-devs team mailing list archive

[Michael Terry <michael.terry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello!  I've looked a bit into using pkgme as Quickly's manager for 
debian/ instead of python-mkdebian.  There are a couple things missing 
that Quickly currently expects.

Necessary:

1) /opt support.  I know from the other thread that this is already in 
flight.  This would also seem to require being able to choose the pkgme 
backend to use, so we can opt-in to the extras backend if we are 
building for extras.

Wishlist:

2) Changelog support.  It looks like right now pkgme just deletes the 
changelog each time.  python-mkdebian kept the history and let us 
specify the new changelog entry.  Though really we don't *need* the 
history.  And we could use dch to set the contents of the entry 
ourselves.  It just would feel more integrated if there was a way to 
specify changelog content.

3) Be able to specify additional Depends or Build-Depends (sometimes an 
app will have a dependency not via an import but from a command it runs, 
which pkgme can't detect).  Again, we could do this ourselves by parsing 
debian/control, but it is more robust if pkgme could do it.  I recall 
this being on the pkgme roadmap, but it doesn't seem to be implemented yet.

-mt