Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> I have been using debmake+devscripts to build my debian packages till
> now. How does this compare to debhelper? Also, I remember seeing some
> post in debian-devel which said that one of these (debmake or debhelper)
> is being orphaned or is no longer in active development. Should I move
> to debhelper.
Debmake was never 100% policy conforming. Due to this lack Joey wrote
the debhelper that reflects our policy 1:1. Thus debhelper is to be
preferred against the other tool. However I'm not sure how much
orphaned debmake is since I saw a recent upload by Santiago a few
days ago.
> I know. I know. I should move to hand rolling all my packages. Will
:-)
Regards,
Joey
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