Neil Williams wrote: > Can I have an assurance that &inhibit_log; will be retained - compatible > with current behaviour - in future versions
No. Dh_Lib is not a general-purpose library, it is a factoring out of common code that debhelper programs use. Its behavior can and will change in the future as it has in the past. (It used to be a shell library..) > You might as well claim that devscripts would be disallowed from using > Debhelper::Dh_Lib. I can certianly see no reason for it to do so, since debhelper programs are out of devscripts' scope. > I don't want to have to duplicate Debhelper::Dh_Lib and embed a forked > copy in Emdebian::Tools just because the module mangles the exit value > or creates spurious generated files. Useful code could always be moved from Dh_Lib to a true general-purpose perl module, such as some of the ones in dpkg-dev. -- see shy jo
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