Hi, as I can see, this is a recurrent question (I've made the same question a year ago). I have a proposal:
As debmake and dh-make are the two mostly used helper scripts, I propose the creation of a document to be available at http://www.debian.org/devel explaining about this two scripts. It would be nice if the maintainers of the packages create that text. Comments?? Em Seg, 2003-01-20 ās 20:55, Craig Small escreveu: > 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] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
