On Mon, 2017-09-25 at 19:20 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > This detection method looks very fragile. > The rpm package in Debian provides /usr/bin/rpm, probably something > similar could exist for dpkg/apt on a rpm-based distribution. >
I agree. I didn't like it either. > You should probably have an (optional) command line switch to set the > packaging backend (and skip autodetection in that case) and use that > switch from within debian/rules ... Yes. I'll come up with something. Thanks. > and BTW, clean should work without having a proper configuration. Agreed. Never spent much time on apport. When I started work on it initially, I was hopeful there'll be more momentum in Debian and many more people will use it (and chime in). But since the very beginning, it has been in Experimental only. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System
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