Re: Apology to the authors of helper packages
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> 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.
The intent is to build a package, a necessary part of that is that it be
policy complient.
> 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.
I suggest you read the man pages. You'll see lots of
CONFORMS TO
Debian policy, version 2.3.0.1
etc.
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