On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 02:38:46PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > dh-make isn't so relevant now that debhelper 7 exists. cp > /usr/share/doc/debhelper/examples/rules.tiny debian/rules && dch > --create, manually create debian/control and debian/copyright, and that's > about it. dh-make comes from the era when deb-make (anyone remember that) was around which, I think, was before debhelper was around. It was basically written to fix a "problem" which was bad templates getting into the Debian archive.
debhelper has gotten smarter with every release and gradually what dh-make has had to do is getting reduced. I'm not sure we're at the point of removing dh-make (it's an open question; I'm really not sure) but perhaps we will be there one day. As it was written to solve a problem, if the problem goes then we won't need it. Steve with his years of packaging experience is not probably a good sample of one to base this upon. I'd be curious to see if newer packagers use it or not. As far as what packaging-dev recommends or suggests, I've never used it so don't really care either way. I am curious why a specific tool is recommended over a generic one (I don't use bzr anywhere so it would be useless for me). - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ http://enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debian.org GPG fingerprint: 5D2F B320 B825 D939 04D2 0519 3938 F96B DF50 FEA5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121012050353.ga26...@enc.com.au
