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Re: Installed debhelper 3.0.30 (all source)



Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> 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.

That would indeed be nice.

> > 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?

It does.

> > 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.

Well the current ones are a rather convoluted mess, and I haven't taken
the time to dig through and figure out why they need to use a shlibs
file, but the maintainer of the package seemed to think they did.

-- 
see shy jo



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