Re: Fully debhelper-based build infrastructure

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2018-01-12 10:22]:
> > [nip]
> >
> > The minimal debian/rules would be like this:
> >
> >    #!/usr/bin/make -f
> >    %:
> >            dh $@ --buildsystem=octave --with=octave
> >
> > My intention is to create a new package called dh-octave that could coexist 
> > with octave-pkg-dev, so that no transition will be needed.
> >
> > Let me know what you think about this project.
>
> I think it is great!
>
> As a minor improvement, is it possible to get rid of one of the two 
> arguments of dh? My impression is that most dh helpers have either the 
> --buildsystem or the --with arguments, but not the two simultaneously. 
> But I guess there is some good technical reason for the current 
> implementation.

There is a technical necessity for that.  The option --buildsystem=octave 
is needed for specifying the build rules defined in 
/usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem/octave.pm

The option --with=octave is necessary for having the appropriate places 
in the sequence of commands defined in 
/usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Sequence/octave.pm

I do not know how to activate both functionalities with a single option.

Rafael

P.S.: Notice that packages that build-depend on dh-lua have the 
following line in debian/rules:

   dh $@ --buildsystem=lua --with=lua

for the same reasons as explained above.