Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-...@web.de> writes: >> So, in this case, the difference is negligible, both can be trivially >> understood. >> >> However, it gives more flexibility to the maintainer, to do more complex >> stuff, if so needs be. But, that won't be the common case. Why? Because >> there's no point in overcomplicating things. > > Lets hope it stays at the level where you have a shebang (one of few > well known tools) followed by the normal input. That would be relatively > easy to get used to and understand. So you look at the .install file and > then man dh_subst and you are good.
That's the idea. Similarly to the normal dh_* tools, where you look at the man page, and you're good. ;) > At a glance what does this do? [...] It triggers my "slap the maintainer silly" button. Other than that, it's dead simple: copy a file from one place to the other (with possibly renaming the file), with the file list following the while loop. This also gave me an idea, and since this use-case seems to be common, I'll probably rename my dh_subst thing to debhelper-exec-extras or something similar, and include a little tool that will cover this use-case aswell. >>> On the other hand we do have packages with executable debhelper files >>> that are NOT scripts. Debhelper currently breaks those. The execute >>> scripts feature should use a compat level. And then you would have the >>> situation you described, where you have to check the compat level and >>> every script. >> >> I'd treat executable files that are not scripts as a bug. They most >> probably don't have a shebang line, and that's just wrong. >> >> Breaking buggy packages is not something I'd worry about. Especially if >> the number is fairly low (and I expect it to be so, but feel free to >> correct me with numbers). > > Around 17 sources for 3.0 (quilt) format. So nothing major. Could be > some more for native packages. So, the number is not fairly low, it's so low that it doesn't even matter. :P -- |8] -- 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/87zkey3zy1.fsf@algernon.balabit
