Re: debmake + devscripts vs. debhelper

1998-10-09 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 09 Oct 1998, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Debmake was never 100% policy conforming. Due to this lack Joey wrote > > the debhelper that reflects our policy 1:1. Thus debhelper is to be > > preferred against the other tool. However I'm not sure how

RE: debmake + devscripts vs. debhelper

1998-10-09 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Shaleh wrote: > debhelper is the one under active development. Mmm, is TeX under "active" development? I heard that the latest version is still 3.14159, is 4.0 being to be released soon? :-) Maybe we should stop using it just because of that? ;-) No, I don't want to open aga

Re: debmake + devscripts vs. debhelper

1998-10-09 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > Debmake was never 100% policy conforming. Due to this lack Joey wrote > the debhelper that reflects our policy 1:1. Thus debhelper is to be > preferred against the other tool. However I'm not sure how much > orphaned debmake is since I saw a recent up

Re: debmake + devscripts vs. debhelper

1998-10-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > I have been using debmake+devscripts to build my debian packages till > now. How does this compare to debhelper? Also, I remember seeing some > post in debian-devel which said that one of these (debmake or debhelper) > is being orphaned or is no longer in active

RE: debmake + devscripts vs. debhelper

1998-10-07 Thread Shaleh
debhelper is the one under active development. It makes the build process rather nice. Hand rolling is not needed. No sense making it complicated.

debmake + devscripts vs. debhelper

1998-10-07 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I have been using debmake+devscripts to build my debian packages till now. How does this compare to debhelper? Also, I remember seeing some post in debian-devel which said that one of these (debmake or debhelper) is being orphaned or is no longer in active development. Should I move to debhelper