Neil McGovern <ne...@debian.org> writes: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:19:48PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> If you are scared by "echo x | cat - y", that it prevents you from >> understanding the rules files, then you shouldn't touch the package >> anyway. > If you're deliberately obfuscating debian/rules when there's no or very > little advantage, then you shouldn't be producing the package. I think you're expressing a bit too much confidence in the universality of your personal reaction here. Just because it isn't clear to you doesn't mean that it's obfuscated, let alone deliberately obfuscated. I think you have the core of a reasonable point -- it's probably better for the archive as a whole if we can standardize as much as possible on packaging tactics since it makes it easier for other people to work on packages they've not seen before -- but you're applying it a bit too aggressively to some debian/rules constructs that I would be unsurprised to see in any package, including ones using dh. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/877gjrwy6b....@windlord.stanford.edu
