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Re: Do we want to Require or Recommend DH



 ❦ 19 mai 2019 23:53 -04, Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>:

>     >> 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.
>
>     Sean> For those who haven't seen it, the original author of dh, Joey
>     Sean> Hess, has just published a blog post relevant to the
>     Sean> discussion we're having:
>
> I've read the blog post.
>
> I think Joey's points are very consistent with our discussion here.

Is there an example of a package where dh cannot be used? Making 96% of
packages simpler and 4% of packages moderately more complex seems to be
a good argument to uniformize our packaging practices towards dh.
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