Re: [Gnewsense-dev] gNewSense 5

[Sam Geeraerts]

Op Fri, 06 May 2016 20:13:48 -0400
schreef dww <address@hidden>:

> Would it be possible to extend the framework whereby the developer can
> fill out a data file based on a template.  A script would read the
> file and attempt to create and modify appropriate files needed to
> update the package and then build it.
> 
> I imagine there would be many cases where this would not work
> completely. So there would still be manual inspection and reworking.

That would lower the barrier for contributions a lot. I fear that
upstream packages and our modifications to them are too diverse to make
this possible, but I welcome you to look at our patches in Ucclia to
try and find some patterns that would lend themselves to this approach.