Re: [PATCH] tools: Improve make deb

[Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>]

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On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 14:46 +0100, George Dunlap wrote: 
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> > I'm just concerned that with these patches you may be trying to turn
> > this simple convenience functionality into something which you think is
> > suitable for end user consumption, which is something we need to think
> > carefully about since there is a maintenance (and expectation) burden
> > imposed by doing that.
> 
> I think in an ideal world, "make deb" (or "make rpm") would be used by
> exactly the same people who at the moment do "make install" -- that
> is, fairly technical end-users who have the knowledge to muck about
> with their system; they need to take the responsibility to not shoot
> themselves in the foot (or to bandage it up properly if they do).
>
I see and share Ian's feelings, but I agree with George. :-P
For what it counts, I happen to use kernel-package (make-kpkg) on Debian
systems to build my kernel because it's nice and easy tool to have
package(s) for my very own system.

Trying putting it the other way around, let's say I'd be sad if
make-kpkg weren't there, although I _never_ever_ wanted to distribute to
any kind of users the packages I produced with it.

Does this look close enough to this situation here? (If no, sorry for
the interference :-( ).

> I think it's fairly likely that this will be the case, as long as we set
> the expectations properly in the documentation and so on.
> 
Agreed  again.

Dario

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