Re: debian/rules: Moving to debhelper or cdbs

[Adeodato Simó <asp16@alu.ua.es>]

* Ben Finney [Tue, 17 May 2005 11:35:56 +1000]:

> I'd like to submit patches for a couple of packages that currently use
> hand-rolled debian/rules files.

  Which packages, and why? I mean, there are very cleanly packaged files
  that don't use debhelper nor cdbs (see e.g. make). But there can be
  awfully written debian/rules files, hence my question.

> Is the current best practise to use
> debhelper, or cdbs, or something else?

  Hah! Since that's a tricky question, I'll just say that to fix a
  hand-rolled debian/rules, migrating to debhelper will probably be
  easier and more obvious, just by substituting chunks of commands
  with the appropriate dh_whatever invocation.

  HTH,

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