On May 13, Sam Hartman <leader@debian.org> wrote: > As promised, I'd like to start a discussion on whether we want to > recommend using the dh command from debhelper as our preferred build > system. I have already asked this last time, but nobody answered. I use debhelper in all of my packages but I have never switched to dh: why should I bother? "Everybody is doing this" is not much of an argument. Would dh really make a debian/rules file like these simpler to understand? Can somebody try to win me over with a patch? :-) https://salsa.debian.org/md/inn2/blob/master/debian/rules https://salsa.debian.org/md/kmod/blob/master/debian/rules > There's another argument though. Using dh might make things easier for > others making changes to your packages. It makes it easier for us to But would it really be much easier than debhelper? > The biggest argument I've heard against changes in this area is that > moving towards dh and debhelper will introduce bugs. Everything introduces bugs, but I have never considered this a valid reason to stop improving software. -- ciao, Marco
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