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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130514094834.GA6551@goofy.localdomain