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Re: what's the right way to auto-create debian/control?



On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 12:30:30AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 08:09:26PM +0100, Samuel Mimram wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be possible to put these lines in a file 
> > (/usr/share/ocaml/autocontrol.make for example) in the package ocaml in 
> > order to be able to do this by just an include of this file in the rules?
> 
> IMO the best solution would be to write a cdbs class file (a makefile
> snippet which integrates with cdbs). Other communities start doing that
> for special purpose packages: gnome, perl, python already have their
> classes, kernel developers are considering doing it.

Indeed, but not everyone wants to relinquish his control of the debian/rules
file to the obscurity of cdbs.

> Still, in our community cdbs is not widespread (am I wrong or I'm the
> only user?)

probably,

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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