Re: Best Packaging Practices - collecting ideas (and texts!)
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 04:42:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > > > "The debhelper (dh_*) scripts help you do common tasks automaticly
> > > > or with little help from the package maintainer. Some of them need
> > > > configuration and the debhelper configuration file naming convetions
> > > > is as packagename.conftype. You can also name it as just conftype
> > > > wich is then applied to all binary packages in the control file.
>
> Last sentence is wrong.
You are right. I reread the manpage and yes it is applied to the
first package.
> > Or just refer to it. The important thing here is the naming convention
> > for multiple packages. But yes that part from debhelper is a good start.
> > A interesting thing is that the convention is not always true. Take
> > for example the changelog file.
>
> It's a special case, one where your earler incorrect sentence is in fact
> correct.
So control, changelog and rules are special cases. Onle changelog
is handled by debhelper though.
Thanks for clarifying my mistakes.
Regards,
// Ola
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