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Re: dh-make-perl overrides



On Feb 20, 2010, at 13:17, gregor herrmann wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:49:23 +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> 
>> There is this little known feature of dh-make-perl, the overrides, 
>> that I want to drop.
> 
> Go for it!

+1

> 
>> The overrides is a mechanism to forsibly correct some values that 
>> dh-make-perl guesses wrong. 
> 
> Thanks for the explanation, until now I never understood what they
> are actually supposed to do :)
> 
>> I find this feature a gross hack coming from the times when 
>> dh-make-perl was a little puppy. 

Woof!
> 
> Ack.
> 
>> I think overrides are hardly ever used, and would like to try to phase 
>> them out. 

Makes complete sense to me.

Jeremiah


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