Re: Packaging helpers (Re: debstd-like tool for those who don't want to use debmake)

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Vincent Renardias wrote:

> scripts calling yet more other scripts???!!!
> It can only make the situation worse IMHO.
> (What do the other think?)
> 
I agree completely! The problem with debmake is not that it makes
packaging decisions, but that it does it in a way that make building the
package depend on a particular version of debmake. 

Helper programs for constructing Debian packages should create a package
that can be built free of their existance. This isn't the "hard" problem
that some have made it out to be. It just requires a different approach to
constructing the rules file than has been taken by the current design.

Luck,

Dwarf
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