Re: A list of common gotchas in Debian packaging
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:50:29PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
> >Some issues seem to come up time and again when somebody inspects RFS'd
> >packages. Some of these are not breaches of policy but simply bad
> >practices, like leaving quoted dh_* commands in debian/rules.
> I do that all the time. It is much easier to see that a program is not
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 12:33:53PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
> Whether someone thinks is "bad practise", the other may think it "more
> maintainable".
Well, I must add that I don't find the recommendation very smart either,
but probably there's somebody out there that has terrible difficulties
in not reading commented-out lines or something like that. I personally
find dh_make-generated rules files hard to read in general, mostly
because the meaning of all those commands keeps changing and even many
dh_* commands that are not commented out are not really doing anything
worthwhile. Not that I would stop using dh_make, anyway: it would just
be nice to have a list of things dh_make is most likely to leave wrong.
Which, coincidentally, is something the "common errors" checklist will
also cover. :)
The reason I mentioned the "take out the outcommented lines"
recommendation was that it really comes up often enough to belong to the
checklist. I don't want to fight every small recommendation detail I
find wrong; I got enough of that for a while with the native/non-native
topic.
Panu
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