Re: The noudeb build profile and dh-only rules files

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Theodore Ts'o writes ("Re: The noudeb build profile and dh-only rules files"):
> Thanks, that's really helpful.  One of the really frustrating things
> I've found about trying to use dh is that there is a real lack of
> examples which are more complicated than:
...
> # See?   dh is easy-peasy!
...
> Sure, there are few a examples using one or two override declarations,
> but trying to use dh on a non-trivial package is.... non-obvious,
> given the current documentation.  Some more advanced tutorials, or
> some links to good examplars of how to use dh in "real world",
> non-trivial packaging setups, would be really good.  It looks like
> openssh is a good example, but I'm sure they must be others.

Here's an example from a package I converted to dh in the last year or
so:
  https://browse.dgit.debian.org/xen.git/tree/debian/rules

I'm not sure where I should send this so that the next person with
your question finds it (other than just posting it to -devel when it
seems relevant).

I highly recommend the approach of writing a comment next to each
override etc., explaining what it's there for.

Ian.

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