Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] tools: Improve make deb

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Stefano Stabellini writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] tools: Improve make 
> deb"):
> > Maybe we should produce a tgz instead (plain or Slackware style).
> 
> This fails to solve the problem Tim was trying to solve, which is
> to make it easy to remove previous versions.

That is true.
However Slackware can install and remove them (even though I understand
not many people are going to benefit from it).
alien can convert those tgz into a deb or an rpm. Overall it certainly
wouldn't be an improvement for Debian users, but after all they are not
the target anyway.


> > I wouldn't want to create wrong expectations: it is better to build no
> > packages than building "broken" packages. (Of course I still think the
> > best choice would be to produce good packages.)
> 
> I think we can engage in better expectations management.  Perhaps we
> could rename the target.

Right, that would be a step forward. Something that make it clear that
it isn't a proper deb. 

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