Christopher Martin writes: >> Well, I agree with you that either debianrules should be installed >> instead of debiandirs, or Packaging.txt should be adapted. I'm not >> certain what calc wanted to do, but installing debianrules instead >> of debiandirs seems like the best solution to me >> personally. Anyway, calc, please shed some light on this !
> I'm always in favour of simplicity, but if there's some subtle > reason to use debianrules + perl instead of debiandirs directly that > I'm not aware of, then I'd conform to that. Well, advantages are that it's a script, and can generate dynamic output. Currently, this is only used for automatically enabling debug mode when DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS contains nostrip, but this is a very useful feature imho ( speaking as the maintainer of unofficial kde debug packages ). cheers domi
