Re: debmake: a compromise?
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Vincent Renardias wrote:
> After reading some comments on debstd, it seems like it's always the
> same things that make it a 'bad' tool:
>
> 1/ It doesn't say what it really does.
What would you like to have it say?
> 2/ Interface changes often.
Sorry that is not true. One change in the interface (forced on the package
by some strange issue) is not "often".
> Couldn't we make it accept the option '--no-act' that would only make it
> print the command it execute, that way, the maintainer debianising a
> package can select the 'good' commands and include them in debian/rules.
Could be specific what you want? What "bad" commands are there?
> 1/ We know what's happening during packages still the shell commands are
> executed from debian/rules.
debstd is a primitive shell script easy to review.
> 2/ Once this is done, the package does not need debstd any more, so any
> changes to debstd don't matter.
Does not work. We have had a number of changes (like the md5sums) that
benefitted from the fact that debstd was in /usr/bin/debstd and not
contained in the packages itself. Simple updating debmake and rebuilding
the package leads to fixes and new features.
Please cc me on all mail related to debmake. I cannot keep up with the
volume of e-mail coming in.
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