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Re: debplate - A template system for Debian packages

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On Sun, 2020-05-24 at 01:23 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> I'm going to talk about this at MiniDebConf Online next week, but since
> I'm developing it with some of the kernel team's packages in mind I
> thought I would give some advance notice here.

Something I forgot to mention is that this depends on jinja-vanish,
which is currently in the NEW queue.  My packaging repo for that is at:
https://salsa.debian.org/benh/jinja-vanish

Ben.

> This is currently under my personal namespace on Salsa:
> https://salsa.debian.org/benh/debplate
> 
> I've just updated the README file to document (hopefully) all the
> features that currently work.  There's also a TODO list with all of the
> things I think still need to be done for a v1.0.
> 
> There are some examples in the debplate source.  I have a work-in-
> progress conversion of firmware-nonfree to use debplate, which is at:
> https://salsa.debian.org/benh/firmware-nonfree/-/commits/benh/debplate
> 
> My intention is that debplate will (1) re-use existing well-known
> software and formats as far as possible, and (2) be generally useful
> for source packages that build multiple similar binary packages.
> 
> If it succeeds, and if we adopt it for the linux and firmware source
> packages, that should result in those packages being less unusual and
> so easier for outsiders to contribute to.  Also, if debplate gets
> contributors from outside the kernel team, it would reduce our
> maintenance burden.
> 
> Have a look at it and see what you think.
> 
> Ben.
> 
-- 
Ben Hutchings
You can't have everything.  Where would you put it?

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debplate - A template system for Debian packages Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-05-24 02:30 +0200
  Re: debplate - A template system for Debian packages Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-05-24 02:50 +0200
    Re: debplate - A template system for Debian packages Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> - 2020-05-24 08:10 +0200
      Re: debplate - A template system for Debian packages Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-05-25 20:30 +0200

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