On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 10:06:57PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > I think I have a solution - starting with debhelper version 2, debhelper > will continue to behave as it does now by default. If a special environement > variable, DH_COMPAT, is set to 2 or above, it will change over to using the > new, clean functionality. This will of course be accopmplished easily by > setting the variable at the top of debian/rules. The only thing I'd change is the order of which these happen. Default should be the new behavior... as long as we can do this w/o shutting down the autobuilders. If the old behavior is default, it'll be that much harder to phase it out. > * Standardize on the name used for the temporary build directory of a > package. Currently it's debian/tmp/ for the first package and > debian/<package>/ for other packages of a multi-binary package. I'm sounds good. > stupider - stop automatically finding manpages, require the user to tell > it what files are man pages and where they go. Much more > consistent with other debhelper programs. Much prefered. More control means easier handling of "unusual" cases. > * Debhelper could be changed to look at only debian/<package>.<foo> instead > of looking at debian/<foo> also as it does in some cases now. The advantage > is just a simpler UI, you don't have to be concerend about what's the first > binary package listed in the control file anymore. A disadvantage is longer > filenames. This could be combined with the subdirectory idea, giving us > debian/<package>/foo, but that seems a little silly if your package only > generates one binary package. Makes the most sense... esp. if the build directory changes from debian/tmp to debian/<package> -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <gecko@benham.net> <>< * * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * <gecko@debian.org> <secretary@debian.org> <lintian-maint@debian.org> * * <webmaster@debian.org> <gecko@fortunet.com> <webmaster@spi-inc.org> * =========================================================================
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