On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:53:22 +0100, James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On (28/07/06 10:03), Lars Wirzenius wrote:
>> pe, 2006-07-28 kello 00:03 +0100, James Westby kirjoitti:
>> > * Make it easier for package maintainers
>> > - One extra dh_ call and maybe one more file in debian/
>>
>> How badly is this tied to debhelper? Any chance of designing it so
>> that it doesn't require debhelper?
>>
> Why does this concern you? I thought debhelper was fairly standard
> use today.
It concerns me since I do not use helper packages in my
packaging. Debhelper, while pretty popular, is by no means mandatory,
or universal.
> But, yes, like all of debhelper it's just a convenience wrapper. If
> your package is very simple then in the postinst add
Well, my packages are not simple, but I still prefer to hand
craft them.
> if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then
> make-ssl-cert2 package
> fi
> and in postinst
> if [ "$1" = "purge" ]; then
> make-ssl-cert2 -r package || true
> fi
> The dh_ script merely does this for you after adding any extra
> arguments to make-ssl-cert that you have requested with your
> debian/package.certificate file.
This is perfectly fine, as long as there is a man page for
make-ssl-cert.
> So, if you are merely concerned that it is /possible/ to do it
> without a dh_ call, then it certainly is. But I think it is a good
> idea to use it, as if the "policy" changes in this respect then a
> rebuild is all that may be required.
I would hope that such policy changes be very few, once
stabilized, and any minor changes would be subsumed in
make-ssl-cert.
> And also it gives the maintainer more chance that any problems can
> simply be reassigned to someone else.
I prefer to actually maintain my packages, not seek excuses to
reassign bug reports to other people. YMMV.
manoj
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