On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 03:07:12PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Hi all, > > The current debian-policy package build rules generate a package using the > low-level dpkg plumbing directly, including calling dpkg --build. This is > something Manoj did routinely in his packages, and I subsequently > preserved it since it made some sense to me for the Debian Policy package > to not rely on any of the various helper layers. > > Over time, though, I've started changing my mind on this. While there's > some argument for Debian Policy being a special case, I think there's a > much stronger argument for having the packaging be boring and typical and > looking like any other package in the archive. I don't think we've really > benefited from the manual packaging over the years, and there have been > various minor bugs I've had to fix that would have been fixed > automatically (most recently not passing the correct flags to gzip for > reproducible builds). > > I therefore intend to: > > - Move all the formatting build machinery into the top-level Makefile. > - Convert the packaging to dh with a minimal debian/rules file. > - Move the doc-base registration files into debian with *.doc-base names. > > My guess is that nearly no one will care, but if I'm missing some reason > not to do this, please let me know.
What we should really do is to remove the build-dependency on emacs which cause trouble. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
