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Re: debian/rules: Moving to debhelper or cdbs



On Tue, 17 May 2005 11:35:56 +1000, Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> said: 

> Howdy mentors, I'd like to submit patches for a couple of packages
> that currently use hand-rolled debian/rules files.

        Are the packages in question buggy, or you just find hand
 rolled files aesthetically displeasing?

> Is the current best practise to use debhelper, or cdbs, or something
> else?

        Best practices do not presume a helper package, as far as I
 can tell

> Any existing "things to check" document for moving to either or both
> of these systems?

        manoj
ps: All my packages have hand rolled ./debian directories, and I
 prefer to keep them this way.
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