For those who haven’t followed, the latest debhelper upload includes the following change:
* Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
So, to sum it up. Before, you would do in debian/rules:
sed s/@DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH@/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/
debian/libfoo.install.in > debian/libfoo.install
Now, you will do in debian/foo.install:
#! /bin/sh
sed s/@DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH@/$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/
<< EOF
…
EOF
(Bonus points for implementing this in a different language for each
package.)
Now that we’ve made incredible progress in terms of obfuscation, I’d
appreciate if we could have a working solution that does not require
scripting for the most trivial operations. So what remains?
* Convincing Joey to revert this useless change and actually
commit something useful.
* NMU debhelper.
* Technical committee.
* Fork dh_install in a new package.
Any comments before someone starts doing either of these?
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