Re: Bits from the DPL (April 2019)

2019-05-12 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Bill" == Bill Allombert writes: Bill> On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 08:36:16AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: >> >> Now given our community it's entirely possible that the question >> of whether it's a layering violation in our existing policy >> architecture may influence whethe

Re: Bits from the DPL (April 2019)

2019-05-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 5/1/19 10:29 PM, Bill Allombert wrote: > For package where upstream do not use the autotools, using dh can be > quite inconvenient compared to plain debhelper. No, I don't think so. With every esoteic thing I've tried to pacakge, dh was a good help. Overriding dh_auto_* when necessarry is eas

Re: Bits from the DPL (April 2019)

2019-05-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 08:36:16AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "Sean" == Sean Whitton writes: > > Sean> Hello, > Sean> On Tue 30 Apr 2019 at 09:28AM -04, Sam Hartman wrote: > > >> I plan to start with the question of preferring dh as a package > >> build tool. https://tren

Re: Bits from the DPL (April 2019)

2019-05-12 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Sean" == Sean Whitton writes: Sean> Hello, Sean> On Tue 30 Apr 2019 at 09:28AM -04, Sam Hartman wrote: >> I plan to start with the question of preferring dh as a package >> build tool. https://trends.debian.net/ has already added not >> using dh as a "package smell" a