Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I request an adopter for the dh-exec package, ideally someone familiar
with debhelper and surrounding tools. Best would be to have it under the
debhelper team umbrella.
The package is in a reasonable shape, but there are some issues that
would need work - some of that work has been done in the git tree (which
at the moment, is under my personal account on GitHub, but should be
moved to somewhere else - talk to me about it!), but has not been
uploaded.
Some of the things in it are... scary. The adopter will need reasonable
Perl knowledge, and a deeper understanding of Debhelper. It's not for
the faint of heart. But it's also not as bad as I may paint it.
The package description is:
Debhelper (in compat level 9 and above) allows its config files to be
executable, and uses the output of such scripts as if it was the
content of the config file.
.
To ease and standardize the most common tasks, this package provides
a few solutions to help constructing such executable scripts:
.
* A way to ease variable substitution, from environment variables or
dpkg-architecture.
* Ability to filter files by architecture or build profile, within a
single debhelper control file.
* An extension to dh_install and dh_installman, with the ability to
rename files.
If anyone is interested, please contact me first, I want to see this in
good hands.
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