CDBS is going away, remove ancient bake_debian_files.sh

[a-detiste]

These two CDBS modules are already gone:

include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/autotools.mk
include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/makefile.mk

[ivucica]

@a-detiste Can we have an alternative instead of outright removal?

First, I've only done a quick ag across my old (misnamed) gnustep-ubuntu mercurial repo, and it looks like I have not used bake_debian_files.sh in there.

Then I've done it across this repo, tools-make, and this is a crucial file in Master/deb.make intended to be used in other libraries and apps (the intent is: if you use GNUstep Make, you can cook up a Debian source package with nearly no changes, and upload it to a build system (so, gnustep-base, gnustep-gui, and, say, SystemPreferences.app).

It's not to the level of what actual Debian packages are doing, but it was never meant to be: it was meant to be an easy option to quickly package software. I didn't quite maintain it or get a CI to build these packages, but I don't think nuking this is right.

Perhaps modernizing the rules file which is generated is the better option than outright nuking this? After all, rules is nothing but a Makefile, right? (Potentially doesn't even have to be that, as long as it is executable.)

So maybe dropping CDBS and replacing with more direct use of DH, or skipping that and just outright writing buildrules as I've done for some other non-public code is the right approach instead?

[a-detiste]

I see it is also using Python2 that was removed years before. It looks like nobody is using this script and nobody complained yet.

[a-detiste]

I could not fix the 2 very last debian GNUmake packages myself so I asked the maintainer who did it for me.... that was 6 months ago, I don't remember which packages or even their name 😅. I remember the good feeling.

[a-detiste]

Please have a look at this project:

https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2026/ApprovedProjects/DebianizeProduction