> > Create the symlink in post inst. dpkg need not be involved. > Ah, but then this is not a simple one-line addition, as you said. > For most of my packages, I have to change just one line in debian/rules > to be FHS-compliant. With your proposal, the amount of work is not doubled > by maybe multiplied by three or four.
It's a joke.. isn't it? If this kind of hard work fixes are starting to became an issue for you, you should probable stop maintaining some packages. The sentence we should remember is this: We should support our users, and we should try to keep compatible. I'd say that 95% of packages use debhelper or debmake. It would be a simple task to modify these programs to add these lines. I still don't believe that this is your real reason. I think that you just don't like to have backward compatible hacks, you don't like them. It's understandable. But you should work out more compelling reasons... =)
