Package: debhelper
Version: 7.4.3
Severity: wishlist

The debhelper 7 is good and in some ways excessive. To build a simple
package, it churns over all possible commands (see below).

SUGGESTION

Please add support for file

        debian/dh_norun

The file would list those commands that do not need to be run for the
current package. Commands would be listed one at a line. Comments
would be allowed with "#".

This would speed up packaging in low end machines.

List of commands run to make the package:

   dh_installdocs
   dh_installchangelogs
   dh_installexamples
   dh_installman
   dh_installcatalogs
   dh_installcron
   dh_installdebconf
   dh_installemacsen
   dh_installifupdown
   dh_installinfo
   dh_pysupport
   dh_installinit
   dh_installmenu
   dh_installmime
   dh_installmodules
   dh_installlogcheck
   dh_installlogrotate
   dh_installpam
   dh_installppp
   dh_installudev
   dh_installwm
   dh_installxfonts
   dh_bugfiles
   dh_lintian
   dh_gconf
   dh_icons
   dh_perl
   dh_usrlocal
   dh_link
   dh_compress
   dh_fixperms
   dh_strip
   dh_makeshlibs
   dh_shlibdeps
   dh_installdeb
   dh_gencontrol
   dh_md5sums
   dh_builddeb

Of those, for simple package, sometimes only these are needed (target:
binary-arch):

   dh_testdir
   dh_testroot
   dh_installchangelogs
   dh_installdocs
   dh_installexamples
   dh_link
   dh_strip
   dh_compress
   dh_fixperms
   dh_installdeb
   dh_shlibdeps
   dh_gencontrol
   dh_md5sums
   dh_builddeb

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  binutils                      2.20-4     The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.15.5.4   Debian package development tools
ii  file                          5.03-3     Determines file type using "magic"
ii  html2text                     1.3.2a-14  advanced HTML to text converter
ii  man-db                        2.5.6-4    on-line manual pager
ii  perl                          5.10.1-8   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-base                     5.10.1-8   minimal Perl system
ii  po-debconf                    1.0.16     tool for managing templates file t

debhelper recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii  dh-make                       0.50       tool that converts source archives

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