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

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday 26 July 2010, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> 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

Hmm, I don't have a strong opinion on this anymore, now that you are mostly 
caring for it.

> > 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?

Sounds good.

> > 2) Avoid ANY dependencies on dpk-XXX ?
> >
> > I would vote for 1) because I found 2) too restrictive, however there

Alex