On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 12:40:07 +0100, Rafael Laboissière wrote: > * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2018-01-12 10:22]: > > I think it is great! +1 > > 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 think it is equally possible to add further build rules under the hooks that the buildsystem interface provides, I'm taking a look at that and I'll try to push something to salsa if I can get that working. I have tested this on one package so far and it looks pretty good to me as a step in the right direction. -- mike
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