Matthew Palmer wrote: > Would you encourage people to rewrite the packaging method used (eg convert > from dh_ to cdbs) in a QA upload? I'm thinking that, apart from fixing > hideous bletcherisms of past maintainers (such as making upstream-available > packages Debian-native) we would want to avoid major surgery like this. > Especially if you have several different QA people with different > preferences as to build system -- every few uploads the build system changes > again... I'd say that would be a good thing, if the previous build system was something impossible to use and now unmaintained (I'll mention no names). It should not be hard to find a build system that 95% of debian developers are familiar with (hint) or just use straight make. > I'd imagine it'd be unlikely to happen, though -- if only because nobody in > QA (TTBOMK) has the time to go rewriting packaging on a regular basis. I've had to do it in the past when the rules file was completly fubar and working out the screwy build system and fixing it was much more work than just throwing it away. -- see shy jo
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