On 17-May-2005, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2005, Ben Finney wrote: > > I'd like to submit patches for a couple of packages that currently > > use hand-rolled debian/rules files. Is the current best practise > > to use debhelper, or cdbs, or something else? > > The current best practise is to not assume that everybody wants to use > debhelper or cdbs. > > However, if you ask the maintainer first [...] On 17-May-2005, martin f krafft wrote: > No, it's not really. Do consider that debian/rules is maintainer > space, and not many maintainers like to be told to do things > differently. On 17-May-2005, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > Don't do it without the maintainer's go-ahead. The current best > practice is to use whatever (non-evil thing that) works for the > maintainer. I'm surprised that people have consistently read "submit patches" as somehow bypassing the maintainer, or telling him what to do. To whom would I be submitting the patches, if not the maintainer? I'm curious what you all had in mind that I was going to be doing; clearly something socially unacceptable. I don't see what that is though. -- \ "When I was a baby I kept a diary. Recently I was re-reading | `\ it, it said 'Day 1: Still tired from the move. Day 2: Everybody | _o__) talks to me like I'm an idiot.'" -- Steven Wright | Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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