Re: Using CDBS (was: Re: [RFS] muscle)
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Charles Plessy wrote:
I think that we all agree that the most complex packages should not use
a CDBS makefile with plenty of variables set to change the default
behavior. I do not find an easy quantitative way to formalise this in
our policy. Please feel free to propose one. At the very worse,
something like "If you use CDBS and the makefile is more than 12 lines,
please do seriously consider rewriting it using debhelper directly".
Well, I do not really know whether this point has to be covered by
policy. Probably not. If we decide to do so, why not
`grep -v '^#' debian/rules | wc -l` -le 17
This leaves as much space as needed for the comments and introduces
a very important number[1]. ;-))
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] http://www.vinc17.org/d17_eng.html
BTW, I observed in real live several occurences of 17 at totally
unrelated events - so something must be there behind our knowledge. ;-))
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