On Saturday 10 June 2006 01:10, Steve Langasek wrote: --cut-- > In contrast, almost all of cdbs is stashed away in /usr/share/cdbs/; almost > none of what it does is inspectible by looking at the debian/rules and > using those lines as hooks into the documentation. There is > /usr/share/doc/cdbs/cdbs-doc.html, which documents many of the common > variables one may wish to use, but there is no concise description of what > the cdbs rules *themselves* do. It's nice to know that you can supplement > the standard rules with additional double-colon rules, but you're basically > expected to trust that the default rules Do The Right Thing -- if you find > that a cdbs rule does the wrong thing, your only recourses are to either > try to fix up the output after the fact (assuming the Wrong Thing isn't a > fatal failure), or to not include that problematic cdbs class and > reimplement the rules by hand.
I'm also debhelper fan ;-) but what makes you think that if you face a problematic debhelper script you are not supposed to reimplement that particular part of rules by hand as an interim workaround ? -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
