On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:14:09PM +0200, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > >Seems a lot less than most packages. > > Make that "most packages I happen to backport". I am surely only using > a small fraction of Debian, because I mostly run servers that don't > have X or any nifty stuff installed, but I frequently encounter > packages that need debhelper 3. I am not complaining about this, > though. It is good to have new stuff developed.
How many of them actually use debhelper 3 features? I know I've been guilty of gratuitously setting DH_COMPAT=3 now and then (and I know dh_make defaults to it, which doesn't help) In at least some cases, changing that to DH_COMPAT=2 and maybe making a few other small tweaks should get a decent backport. It looks like the only v3 features of interest [0] are globbing in config files, automagic insertion of ldconfig by dh_makeshlibs, and automagic conffile-tagging by dh_installdeb. Depending on the package you're compiling, these might not even matter.. Daniel [0] from debhelper(1) -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | "Of course you can't see the guards. They DON'T EXIST!" | | "Oh my god, we're surrounded!" "Run away, run away!" | | -- Fluble | \---- News without the $$ -- National Public Radio -- http://www.npr.org ----/
