This one time, at band camp, Craig Small said: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:28:07PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > I have a question about how to proceed. I am considering packaging a > > program, and it uses a nonstandard versioning scheme. It ends up > > looking like <package>-DR7.10. dh_make doesn't parse this - this in > > itself trivial to work around, but it made me stop and wonder if this > > is because the versioning scheme is something that shouldn't be used, or > > if it was because of a shortcoming in dh_make. I tend to think the > > dh_make doesn't parse it because it doesn't encourage things that > shouldn't be done. I've gotten bugs about it before, they get closed > and I've never seen something yet that is either going to bite the > maintainer in future and/or is just plain silly. I think this is probably the correct behavior in this instance - I am always torn when confronted with software that _won't_ let you do what you want to, but if the point of this software is to make proper packages for Debian, then it should balk at some things you might want to do outside of Debian. No sweat & no bugreport. Just my innate itchyness, I guess. Thanks again. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Remember though that THERE IS NO | | steve@lobefin.net | GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | A SCALAR. -- Larry Wall in | | | the perl man page | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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