Re: Lintian ERROR saying dpatch is obsolete
Goswin von Brederlow schrieb am Monday, den 28. November 2011:
> Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org> writes:
>
> > Jon Dowland schrieb am Montag, den 28. November 2011:
> >
> >> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:54:57PM +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> >> > And I still like the "never touch a running system" approach. If dpatch works
> >> > without problems, why deprecate it?
> >>
> >> One reason is that the surface area of Debian development tools is too large
> >> and daunting for newcomers. When alternatives for a given tool exist which are
> >> relevant and known outside the Debian eco system and there might be some
> >> practical use for learning those skills in other contexts, IMHO Debian-specific
> >> solutions should need a strong argument *for* to keep, rather than *against* to
> >> remove.
> > imho it is that range of development tools that make us strong. I packaged
> > for nearly every package system in the past and it is mainly the great eco
> > system of debian specific tools that make debian just a joy to package.
> >
> > Alex
>
> and then you need to fix a build failure somewhere deep down in cdbs. :)
such things happen and this may also happen for debhelper, dpkg, apt, and so
on.
Alex
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