Hi all,
for those who are not subscribed to tde-announcements, you might be interested in information about the release of R14.1.5:
https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/announcements@trini... https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Release_Notes_For_R14.1.5
Cheers Slávek --
On Sun November 9 2025 09:08:32 Slávek Banko via tde-devels wrote:
for those who are not subscribed to tde-announcements, you might be interested in information about the release of R14.1.5:
I'm testing the upgrade and was surprised to see that tde-cdbs is priority important which, with the configuration we use here, means it is installed on all our boxes.
I haven't used cdbs but I thought it was something devs installed if they need it?
Also, FWIW, according to https://wiki.debian.org/CDBS it is deprecated in favor of Debhelper.
--Mike
Mike Bird via tde-devels wrote:
I haven't used cdbs but I thought it was something devs installed if they need it?
It holds the tde macros for building debian packages. It is not strictly requireing cdbs. It is also used by debhelper as well.
$ dpkg -L tde-cdbs /. /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/cdbs /usr/lib/cdbs/tde-versions.pl /usr/share /usr/share/cdbs /usr/share/cdbs/1 /usr/share/cdbs/1/class /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/tde.mk /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/tde-cdbs /usr/share/doc/tde-cdbs/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/tde-cdbs/copyright
Dne po 10. listopadu 2025 19:52:35 Mike Bird via tde-devels napsal(a):
I'm testing the upgrade and was surprised to see that tde-cdbs is priority important which, with the configuration we use here, means it is installed on all our boxes.
I haven't used cdbs but I thought it was something devs installed if they need it?
Also, FWIW, according to https://wiki.debian.org/CDBS it is deprecated in favor of Debhelper.
Hi Mike,
I'm surprised why tde-cdbs was installed. It's normally only needed for building TDE packages and no binary package depends on it - it's just a Build-Depends. If the reason for the installation was only priority important, that would be a good reason to change it to optional.
Regarding debhelper, yes we are aware that CDBS is being phased out and that it is a good idea to switch to pure debhelper. However, there are currently many useful things in tde-cdbs that will need to be gradually migrated away from using cdbs. So it will take some time.
Cheers Slávek --
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