Re: Port status
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, David Welton wrote:
> Yeah, but some of them are also pretty ugly hacks, and in a lot of
> cases don't apply to Debian packages. They are best used with "low
> level" kinds of things, like gdb, strace, etc...
Oh, I agree; I wasn't suggesting just blindly using them. But
they're useful just as an overview of what someone else made
of the same job.
> Often times, it is the Debian rules files that are just really awful,
> and make it difficult to track down problems, and or start builds over
> from the top.
Yeah, I've noticed debian/rules being stupid on quite a few
occasions (ncurses springs to mind). Dunno if this will improve
as and when people switch to deb{helper,make} (whichever the new
one is -- I can't remember).
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Chris <chris@fluff.org> ( http://www.fluff.org/chris )
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