Package: debhelper Version: 11.1.6 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
Large projects which use CMake, such as VTK, take a long time to build with the Makefile generator, and see significant build time improvements when being built with the Ninja generator instead. Please consider adding support for using the Ninja generator with CMake. Perhaps something like: $ dh --buildsystem=cmakeninja I realize this may be tricky given how the buildsystems are implemented in debhelper. I don't know much about Perl, but if it supports multiple inheritance, would it be possible to make a class like "cmakebase" and then have "cmake" and "cmakeninja" inherit from both "cmakebase" and then "makefile" and "ninja" respectively? -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii autotools-dev 20180224.1 ii dh-autoreconf 17 ii dh-strip-nondeterminism 0.040-1 ii dpkg 1.19.0.5 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.5 ii file 1:5.32-2 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.5 ii man-db 2.8.2-1 ii perl 5.26.1-5 ii po-debconf 1.0.20 debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: pn dh-make <none> pn dwz <none> -- no debconf information
