On 12/09/2011 07:42 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz <be...@bzed.de> writes: > >> On 12/07/2011 11:47 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: >>> Now that we’ve made incredible progress in terms of obfuscation, I’d >>> appreciate if we could have a working solution that does not require >>> scripting for the most trivial operations. So what remains? >>> * Convincing Joey to revert this useless change and actually >>> commit something useful. >>> * NMU debhelper. >>> * Technical committee. >>> * Fork dh_install in a new package. >> >> It is up to you to use debhelper or not, so just use something else - >> you have experience in writing >> tools-which-do-the-same-thing-as-existing-tools. You could report a >> bug report if you don't like it, but it is up to Joey to follow it or >> not. You could do a NMU if you want people to complain about your >> behaviour to DAM. You could even talk to the CTTE if you want to waste >> more people's time. And yes, you could even fork (its open source!) a >> dh_install package - or instead of wasting ftp master resources, just >> ship your own dh_install script in your debian folders. > > I find it kind of funny that just recently Joey complained about Ubuntu > adding a small patch to their debhelper (for DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH support > in .install files) that he claimed would break some packages (although > no examples have been given to substantiate that claim) and he therefore > would ignore the patch and issue completly from then on. To teach Ubuntu > a lesson.
You want to read that bug again. > And now he does the same. Even worse because his change DOES break > sources. So there are sources which have executable debhelper files already? I doubt it as you'd have to chmod them manually. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ee2469b.9050...@bzed.de
