On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 01:37:46PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > I’d also throw in that monocultures are not good, and that people > in general are happier when they aren’t forced into anything. Yet people in general are also happier when they don't need to learn all ways to do something.
> Just yesterday I had a bug that wouldn’t have happened with a non-dh7 > rules file (incidentally, ordering matters, so I had to add a call to > mkdir -p debian/binarypackagename/some/directory into an over‐ ride). dh_installdirs runs pretty early in the install target, what needed that directory before dh_installdirs? > I also have packages where the automatic build system detection > of dh is wrong. Understandably wrong, but wrong nevertheless. It's a feature of dh_auto_* and not of dh. > Oh, and… to learn, automagisms are not so good, because you don’t > see what’s going on, You see what helpers are executed. You don't always see what do they do but that's unrelated to dh(1). > (though with DH_VERBOSE=1 mandated by default by recent Policy changes, > this may have improved a little). If you mean "The package build should be as verbose as reasonably possible" then it doesn't really mandate DH_VERBOSE=1. -- WBR, wRAR
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