Stefano Zacchiroli dixit: >(which is in fact, exactly what happens during BSPs). Using something >more "standard" in your package helps tremendously those people who, >ultimately, just want to help you out.
Right, but there are three points still: • At some point in time, I really needed mksh to build on some debian-ports architectures that had debhelper (the dependency monster, nowadays) uninstallable, to test fixes mostly in either dietlibc (which also uses pre-debhelper packaging, and I think is less clean than my 'goodbye'-inspired experiment) or klibc. This really helped. • I still think this is more easy to touch than dh7 style. Or all of the other named ones, but, as you say, they also don’t get any love, or (cdbs) much less. • debhelper-lite isn’t going to be introduced for wheezy, *and* I’m not going to make intricate packaging changes now (even if they’re probably without issues), as the release team almost certainly hates me already anyway I’d not have uploaded these packages if I wasn’t sure they work, and usually I prototype my packages in private repositories for up to months. Still, if sledge would please give me a hint at what they thought they found, I'll look at it. It's not as if I were unapproachable (though I *am* a bit territorial about my packages, considering the move to stuff like dh7 recently, even though I often help out packages in other styles, as to not close my eyes or ideology). Admittedly, using pax instead of dpkg-deb may be a bit over the top, but it allows rootless builds *and* is, for the pax package itself, a test that it really works. If joeyh is interested, I’ll try to talk about debhelper-lite next year. The basic idea behind this is: debhelper has gained so much and is so universal that it’s not really suitable for most small packages (shooting with cannons at small birds, and all that). Sorry if some of my sentences don't make as much sense as they should, I’ve still not fully recovered. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
