[cmake-developers] Volunteering to fix and commit some CPackDEB bugs

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/7/26 Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com>:
>> Eric,
>>
>> You have my blessing, if this was your question.
>
> Thanks, I have some more questions.
>
> Some of the patch proposal will add dependencies on
> debian specific tools (dpkg-xxx).
>
> I know you wanted to make debian generator run even if
> debian tools were not installed (i.e. building a deb on rpm based distros).
>
> Alex seems to think that being independent of dpkg-xxx tools
> http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2008-November/025030.html
>
> So what should we do?
>
> 1) Use dpk-XXX when they are found and then fallback to "autonomous
> [may be less-powerfull] mode"
>    if they are not found?
>
> 2) Avoid ANY dependencies on dpk-XXX ?
>
> I would vote for 1) because I found 2) too restrictive, however there
> may be a 3rd option which
> would be to create a new DEB2 CPack generator which requires dpkg-xxx tools?

I would go for (1) as this has been the case before (see ref to dpkg
--print-architecture). Thanks a bunch for stepping up !

I would not go for a new DEB2 package generator, unless this would be
a debian/* generator (more like src generator). This would be of
fantastic help to user, and would make cmake the #1 build generator
for debian based distro.

HTH
-- 
Mathieu