Re: [RFS] qterm: BBS client for X Window System written in Qt

[Adeodato Simó <asp16@alu.ua.es>]

* Steve Langasek [Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:02:55 -0700]:

> On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 01:27:22PM +0800, LI Daobing wrote:

> > > * debian/rules:
> > >   DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_DEBIAN_CONTROL := yes
> > >   This sucks, the generated control file is ugly as hell (it does
> > >   build-depend on build-essential, etc.). Please fix that.
> > I don't agree, at least it works.

> No, it doesn't.  Packages have ended up with RC bugs before as a result
> of cdbs changing the build-dependencies of the package in one of the
> standard debian/rules targets, and I strongly discourage maintainers
> from using this misfeature of cdbs.

  And ftpmasters will now actively discourage its use, by rejecting
  packages that use it. As per [1].

    [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/08/msg00011.html

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