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Re: Installed debhelper 3.0.30 (all source)



Previously Joey Hess wrote:
> Urk. Really?

Really. One of the things I'm consdering for the new source format
is to move all temporary files that are created (files, substvars)
into a special subdirectory. Much tidier and easier to clean.

> Well, I could ditch this new debhelper interface, the only prior working
> interface was to use dpkg-gencontrol options.

Why can't debhelper use dpkg-gencontrol?

> But things like alsa seem to demonstrate a real need for something in a
> file.

How so? I'm reasonably sure the ALSA packages I made initially
didn't fiddle with substvars.

Wichert.

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