On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:08:30PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > What is the story behind these 2 packages? Which one was first, what > was the rationale for creating the other, and why do we still have > both?
debmake was definitely first, then came dh-make. dh-make was created because maintaining debmake became tricky and dh-make used the new (then) debhelper tools. dh_make --help tells you its based on debmake, there's probably some remnant leftovers in other files too. Both are around because some people don't like the debhelper stuff and, as someone said before, there is interest by the respective developers in maintaining them. - Craig (dh-make author) -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
