Hi,

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:43:59AM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 02:52:17PM +0200, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> > Also, is there any relation between this and the old 'debmake' package
> > or they just happen to have the same name?
> 
> My first thought upon seeing this ITP was, whyever for would anyone want to
> resurrect debmake.

Because this inherits some code from the original debmake indirectly via
dh-make and the original debmake is no more in archive.

This serves for the same purpose under new updated packaging service and
the name is available.  I made sure version is higher.  Please consider
this is a reimplementation of debmake.  (dh-make looks to me a
reimplementation of the original debmake.)

 debmake original (1996-2006,shell)  the oldest, 
                  template file based
 dh-make          (1998-,perl)   co-existed with debmake original
                  template file based
 debmake mine     (2013-,python) why not co-existed with dh-make?
                  synthesize file contents based on parameters

Since my intended changes were targeted to the command line UI design
and internal program structure, I did not ask dh-make maintainer to
change this way since this will break its current internal elegance.

Once I decided to reimplement, I chose easiest language to do the task
for me.

Regards,

Osamu

FYI: All the codes inherited from debmake original/dh-make in my new
debmake are optional scripts copied into debian/ directory only upon
user's extra action.


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