Re: [DH] Planning to remove deprecated commands and compat levels in debhelper

2015-11-16 Thread Niels Thykier
Niels Thykier: > Hi, > > EXECUTIVE SUMMARY > = > > I am planning to remove the following features/commands in debhelper in > the near future: > > * compat level 1,2 and 3. > * dh_scrollkeeper > > All of the listed commands do nothing except a deprecation warning. > Please see

Re: [DH] Planning to remove deprecated commands and compat levels in debhelper

2015-11-02 Thread Niels Thykier
Niels Thykier: > Hi, > > EXECUTIVE SUMMARY > = > > I am planning to remove the following features/commands in debhelper in > the near future: > > * compat level 1,2 and 3. > > All of the listed commands do nothing except a deprecation warning. > Please see "BACKGROUND AND NUMBE

Re: [DH] Planning to remove deprecated commands and compat levels in debhelper

2015-09-14 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 14 September 2015 at 11:11, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 09/14/2015 08:38 AM, Niels Thykier wrote: >> On 2015-09-13 21:02, Matthias Klose wrote: >>> [...] >>> >>> still using the globbing feature for command line arguments in DH_COMPAT=2 >>> mode. >>> Was this re-added in higher levels again? >

Re: [DH] Planning to remove deprecated commands and compat levels in debhelper

2015-09-14 Thread Simon McVittie
On 14/09/15 11:11, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 09/14/2015 08:38 AM, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Are you using dh_movefiles here because dh_install does not support wild >> arguments? Or would dh_install not work for you regardless? > > I didn't check if dh_install supports wild card arguments. I'm us

Re: [DH] Planning to remove deprecated commands and compat levels in debhelper

2015-09-14 Thread Matthias Klose
On 09/14/2015 08:38 AM, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2015-09-13 21:02, Matthias Klose wrote: >> [...] >> >> still using the globbing feature for command line arguments in DH_COMPAT=2 >> mode. >> Was this re-added in higher levels again? >> >> Matthias >> > > Hi Matthias, > > Ok, I was not aware

Re: [DH] Planning to remove deprecated commands and compat levels in debhelper

2015-09-13 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-09-13 21:02, Matthias Klose wrote: > [...] > > still using the globbing feature for command line arguments in DH_COMPAT=2 > mode. > Was this re-added in higher levels again? > > Matthias > Hi Matthias, Ok, I was not aware of this feature. To be honest, I suspect it was an artefact

Re: [DH] Planning to remove deprecated commands and compat levels in debhelper

2015-09-13 Thread Matthias Klose
On 09/13/2015 08:29 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2015-09-13 11:04, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Hi, >> >> EXECUTIVE SUMMARY >> = >> >> I am planning to remove the following features/commands in debhelper in >> the near future: >> >> * compat level 1,2 and 3. >> * dh_scrollkeeper >> >>

Re: [DH] Planning to remove deprecated commands and compat levels in debhelper

2015-09-13 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-09-13 11:04, Niels Thykier wrote: > Hi, > > EXECUTIVE SUMMARY > = > > I am planning to remove the following features/commands in debhelper in > the near future: > > * compat level 1,2 and 3. > * dh_scrollkeeper > > All of the listed commands do nothing except a depreca

Re: [debhelper-devel] [DH] Planning to remove deprecated commands and compat levels in debhelper

2015-09-13 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-09-13 14:12, John D. Hendrickson wrote: > [...] > > you seem to be crossing your testimony > > first you say "does nothing but print warning". then you talk about > patterns not matching and removing dh_scrollkeeper which is used by any > packaged doing update for NOT-gnome3, which is ma

[DH] Planning to remove deprecated commands and compat levels in debhelper

2015-09-13 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, EXECUTIVE SUMMARY = I am planning to remove the following features/commands in debhelper in the near future: * compat level 1,2 and 3. * dh_scrollkeeper All of the listed commands do nothing except a deprecation warning. Please see "BACKGROUND AND NUMBERS" for more informa