On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:53:46 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Factor anything that isn't package-specific or a debhelper command out > of the rules file, and the maintenance cost of the rules files will get > so close to zero that it's not worth worrying about. This factoring of > the rules file down to triviallity is exactly how debhelper was > originally "designed"; I looked at a bunch of rules files and wrote > commands until they were just a string of dh_ commands. So that would be a bunch of scripts that are called from debian/rules, e.g. ph_build [0] for "perl Makefile.PL; make; make test" etc. Have I understood the idea correctly? > BTW, here is a really weird thing in our current rules files that > doesn't make any sense with debhelper: > DESTDIR=.. > dh_builddeb --destdir=$(DESTDIR) > Writing debs to .. is dh_builddeb's default behavior. I've seen this on some rare occasions but ists not in dh-make-perl anymore. Cheers, gregor [0] ph_ as in perlhelper :) -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian: the universal operating system - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Pearl Jam: Thank You
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