Re: I take debmake
Adrian Bridgett <adrian.bridgett@poboxes.com> writes:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 08:45:27PM +0100, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > I have taken over the maintenance of debmake (on a temporary basis).
> > Some time ago, Ian said he was going to write a replacement for it, so I'm
> > just going to keep debmake frozen and will fix bugs if I receive suitable
> > patches.
>
> What about using debhelper rather than having another packaging suite? IIRC
> Ian said that debmake was "broken" in some respects and that Debian should
> have a decent packaging tool - IMO debhelper fits that nicely :-)
Maybe so, but lots of packages still use debmake. Santiago is kind
enough to support it until they don't.
Guy
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