On 08/02/2013 10:07, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 10:00:47AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > [...] >> Well, relative to other languages, I think Python's had the most changes >> with regards to build helper tools -- there was dh_pycentral, and >> dh_pysupport in the past which did more or less the same thing in >> different ways, and now we have dh_python2, and dh_python3. > > Yes, but this is not proliferation. There's one standard tool for python2 - > dh_python2 - and one for python3 - dh_python3. (The languages have > sufficiently different build-time and install-time requirements that it > makes sense to have one for each.)
Agreeably so, but I don't think the justification applies for having both python-support and python-central. Thank $deity those have been replaced by dh_python2. A significant number of packages still show up in reverse-depends -b, though. >> In contrast, Mono stuff have only had the dh_cli* set of things, and Java >> only had the javahelper bunch of things. > > Heh. No, there's javahelper, and maven-debian-helper, and > maven-repo-helper, and I'm pretty sure there was another one for another > repo system besides maven. Hmm, okay, I hadn't known about those. I guess that makes the Mono build helpers the outlier then. Why can't everyone else be as awesome as us and have proper Debhelper-based build helpers written in Perl? ;-) -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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