Re: Apology to the authors of helper packages
Hi,
>>"Joey" == Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:
Joey> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Firstly, I would rather see something undergo more serious review,
>> and actually come from the point of plicy conformance rather than
>> from the point of helping people package packages when they do not
>> know how to do so themselves.
>>
>> Looking at the /usr/lib/dh_* scripts, it is obvious they come from
>> the latter viewpoint.
Joey> It is? I designed debhelper with the former viewpoint in mind,
Joey> and with the expectation that you'd already be familair with the
Joey> packaging system before using it.
It seems to me that debhelper seems to have its goal as
helping novices build a package (note the name); and that is the
expressed intent of the package. All through the documentation, the
emphasis is on how to get a package built.
Never once in /usr/doc/debhelper is there any mention of
policy (except in the changelog, where there are 4 references to
things being chaged because of bugs and policy violations.). I stand
behind my statement.
manoj
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