Package: debhelper
Version: 7.0.15
Severity: wishlist
waf is a configure/build infrastructure inspired by scons. It is
currently used by the midori and xmms2 upstreams (and possibly
others). It would be nice if the dh_auto_* scripts detected and used
the waf. Note that Midori provides both waf and a deprecated
autotools build infrastructure, so I'd prefer dh to prioritize waf
higher than autotools when choosing which one to run.
I guess the test for "is this upstream using waf?" should be
-f "waf" and -f "wscript"
According to ./waf --help, it has the following targets:
configure build install clean dist distclean uninstall distcheck
The first few map straight onto dh_auto_* rules; I don't know if
distcheck = dh_auto_test. Possibly dh_auto_test should do nothing if
it finds a ./waf file.
PS: note that unlike e.g. scons or python-setuptools, convention is
for upstreams to include enough of waf to bootstrap itself from just a
python dependency. Therefore I don't think it should matter that
Debian has no "waf" package yet.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.22 Debian package development tools
ii file 4.25-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii html2text 1.3.2a-5 advanced HTML to text converter
ii man-db 2.5.2-2 on-line manual pager
ii perl 5.10.0-13 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii po-debconf 1.0.15 manage translated Debconf template
debhelper recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
pn dh-make <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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