Bug#930666: Please document consensus on use of dh sequencer

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 06:24:45PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>  The following targets are required and must be implemented by
>  ``debian/rules``: ``clean``, ``binary``, ``binary-arch``,
> -``binary-indep``, ``build``, ``build-arch`` and ``build-indep``. These
> -are the targets called by ``dpkg-buildpackage``.
> +``binary-indep``, ``build``, ``build-arch`` and ``build-indep``.  (When
> +using ``dh``, these are implemented using the wildcard pattern shown
> +above.)  These are the targets called by ``dpkg-buildpackage``.

Hello Russ,

I find this layering violation rather confusing especially if dh should
be seen as the rule and not the exception.

There are maybe an hundred places where we could mention dh,
with statement like "when using dh, do something else".

Maybe what we need is a separate 'dh packaging manual' where packaging
is explained from dh point of view.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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