Re: lintian whining about app-defaults file

[phil@bolthole.com]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:08:01AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> phil@bolthole.com wrote:
> >The thing is, the location depends on where Imake decides to put it this
> >month.
> [...]
> >c) Something else [debhelper?] that allows folks to keep using the nice,
> >   clean Imake syntax of
> >       InstallAppDefaults(AppFile)
> >   and not have to worry about absolute paths at all.
> 
> Use debhelper v3, which handles conffiles in /etc for you?

I'm not up to speed on debhelper v3. Are you suggesting:

a) stop using Imake and let debhelper install the app-defaults file
b) use debhelper v3 to build the package, because it automagically
  populates conffiles for you
c) ??

I see problems with both of the first two:
  a)  -- well, gee, why bother even having Imake in debian
  b) -- its not a matter of what *I* use, it's a matter of what the
        autobuilders use.
       
Heck, b) would even be just fine with me in principle: I could have my own
   autobuilder... except I CANT, because there aren't publically available
   'unstable' machines for every architecture!!!!!