On Sun, 20 May 2001 at 00:42:10 +0200, Abraham vd Merwe wrote:
> Hi Colin!
> > One good question is "why are you still using debstd?" :)
>
> Hiehie, yeah, I discovered that debstd is ancient (so is 3.1.1 standard,
> we're already at 3.5.2 :P)
>
> Anyway, I fixed it (just used dh_make, etc.)
>
> I really think we should drop the debmake package from debian though since
> this package is really old and just helps to get you on the wrong track.
Unfortunately some packages still use it; there are 68 packages in the
archive that build-depend on it. It's not clear that use of debmake can
be considered a bug unless it's actually broken.
Maybe the package description should just mention that it isn't being
developed any more.
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