On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 07:13:05PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > There are less than 80 packages in unstable still using it, and there > is an excellent package called debhelper which can do everything that > debmake does and probably much better, so it does not make much sense > to keep debmake alive forever. > > Therefore, I hereby announce my Intention To Kill debmake. (...) > Stage 2. "Please switch away from debmake". > > This is the stage that starts today. So, everybody please, switch away > from debmake. From past experience converting orphaned packages to > debhelper, I would say that debhelper is the logical choice, but every > person has his preferences regarding helper packages.
For reference, this is the list of the 58 packages in unstable that still build-depend on debmake: Stefan Alfredsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> biew cksfv Hakan Ardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libcompface Malc Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> af ucbmpeg-play Eric Van Buggenhaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> vsound Debian Hamradio Maintainers <debian-hams@lists.debian.org> fbb Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cadaver Mark W. Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> lx-gdb Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> verse Jochen Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> liveice snmptrapfmt Richard A. Hecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> set6x86 Michael Holzt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> obexserver Morten Hustveit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kwavecontrol LaMont Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> xdelta Tibor Koleszar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> falselogin Antonin Kral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fmirror Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gtk-gnutella Corrin Lakeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gnubg Frederic Lepied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> xinput Jonathan McDowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fidogate David H. Munro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> yorick Kenshi Muto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> xjokes Cajus Pollmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gnarwl Tomas Pospisek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> xxdiff Filip Van Raemdonck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> xmon Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> translate xtranslate Alain Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wmsmpmon Nathan Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> acl attr dmapi xfsdump Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> linpopup Joop Stakenborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> baken baycomepp colrconv cwdaemon fbbdoc gcb hamsoft ibp twclock twlog xcall xconvers xdx z8530-utils2 David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> music123 Warren Stramiello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> xdrawchem Marcela Tiznado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gtkgo Matthew Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> floppybackup Jim Westveer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> barcode ean13 Martin Wuertele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kdc2tiff James R. Van Zandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flip libwn6 Regards, Daniel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
