On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 11:27:21AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Martin Schulze wrote: > > the maintainer. Well, there's just right another, using debhelper > > partially prevents the package from being compiled on other > > architectures.[1] > > > > [1] We had this problem with binary-sparc where no new perl package > > existed so all packages using debhelper couldn't be re-packaged > > for the Sparc archtitecture. > > Woah, woah, woah.. if perl is broken and won't build on the target arch, > that is hardly debhelper's fault. Debhelper depends on a version of perl > that has been available for debian (i386) since May _1997_. Sorry if you got me wrong. I didn't meant it's debhelpers fault, just depending on too many tools makes everything difficult. Just think about the dpkg situation. I know that the debhelper makes maintanance for many packages and maintainers easier - not for me though. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * joey@infodrom.north.de * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / Never trust an operating system you don't have source for! /
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