Re: Feaping Creature-ism in core Debian Packages
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> Why are we sticking calls to perl routines into a rules file in the first
> place?
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debhelper goes a long way to making a rules file sane. I make a few files in
the debian/ hierarchy and place appropriate calls to dh_foo. Now, I personally
would love to see dpkg-buildpackage and friends do what debhelper does, but
currently it is a safe way to do it.
Note that MANY packages use debhelper. It is a very simple way for my
package(s) to stay policy compliant -- joey hess does the work for everyone
else.
Why place code in the rules file that we must all maintain? As programmers we
are all taught to write re-usable code. Joey Hess has, it just happens to be
perl. I would have used python. shell code simply gets ugly for more than 50
lines of it.
P.S. you simply state "it wont build". Have you filed a bug? Mailed joeyh?
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