Re: Popularity of bzr-builddeb and dh-make
Hi!
Have you considered making a poll for this? Because everyone will tell
you a different oppinion...
For me, I think: bzr-builddeb is specific to Bzr, if you don't use
Bzr, it is useless. Instead, dh_make can be used to generate Debian
templates quickly, so it might be useful for more people, even those
not using Bzr.
I use the Debian Git tools for packaging, I never touched the Bzr
stuff, so I don't need it. I also don't need dh-make often, but it
sometimes is useful.
I can't give any hint, because I am just one developer, but I would
probably prefer dh-make for the reason above.
But if I would need to decide, I would probably suggest both and
recommend none of them :-)
Cheers,
Matthias
2012/10/11 Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>:
> Hi,
>
> How popular are bzr-builddeb and dh-make in Debian? The current
> situation is that packaging-dev recommends bzr-builddeb and suggests
> dh-make. It was requested to drop bzr-builddeb from Recommends and add
> dh-make [1]. The recommended packages of packaging-dev should be
> recommended by most of the Debian developer and not just by the
> maintainer of packaging-dev or one single bug reporter. Therefore I am
> asking you: How popular are bzr-builddeb and dh-make? Should they be
> recommended or just suggested by packaging-dev?
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/688572
>
> --
> Benjamin Drung
> Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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