On 04/25/2013 01:52 AM, Neil McGovern wrote: > Perhaps you should go read the bug report first. As you seem to be > unwilling to actually do research, I'll include the relevant section for > your benefit: > ----- > 1: deliberate obfuscation for no benefit: > echo .nr g 2 | cat - cpio.1 | \ > gzip -n9 >debian/pax/usr/share/man/man1/paxcpio.1.gz > > Just add the extra top line to the upstream or create a patch already. > then you'd have something approaching sane: > cp cpio.1 debian/pax/usr/share/man/man1/paxcpio.1 > gzip -n9 debian/pax/usr/share/man/man1/paxcpio.1 > > Even that is two lines repeated three times (once for each manpage) > instead of just dh_installman on a single line and a small .install > file but that just demonstrates the insanity of the current rules. > ---- > > Neil Yes, that's the same thing we are talking about. Since you don't believe what I wrote, I'll state it again.
I think it's silly to call the echo + cat "deliberate obfuscation". It is easy to understand, and I see no problem with it. It is also not normal to say there's no benefits with such code, when clearly there is (eg: no need to patch and patch again every upstream version, as suggested...). Then, there was no reason to rush into our poor Thorsten with such aggressiveness. When you write: > That cannot be guaranteed - at some point, someone else is going to > need to work on pax. The build system is non-standard and not well > tested because it's restricted to only two packages. > > If that turns out to be me, I will RM. I'm not going to spend time on > the current insanity. then I don't agree, and I don't support such decision. Don't take me wrong. I do agree that using debhelper is better and that it could have been recommended to Thorsten. I do agree with the general idea to push him to use something more easy to understand and maintain by others. But *not this way*, with threats to RM his package, and calling some very easy to understand code (eg that echo + cat) as "deliberate obfuscation", as if he had such bad intentions. By the way, I'm quite sure I'd find a non-debhelper style of debian/rules more easy to understand than CDBS ! :) Thomas -- 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/51786600.2030...@debian.org
