Bug#690381: Insane debian/rules

2013-04-25 Thread Jakub Wilk
I had a look at pax (1:20120606-2+deb7u1) debian/rules. I didn't find it insane, or even unreadable. There's a few obscure places, and a few minor bugs, but that's it. Thorsten, I hope you'll find my review useful: DEB_BUILD_ARCH=$(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_ARCH) DEB_HOST_ARCH=$(she

Bug#690381: Insane debian/rules

2012-11-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Steve McIntyre dixit: >Sorry, totally forgot to get back to you. I was hoping that the others >from that BSP would give me the list, but nothing yet. Give me a few >more days... OK, no problem. >I *do* still stand by the initial comments, regardless. Understood. bye, //mirabilos -- Darwinism

Bug#690381: Insane debian/rules

2012-11-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 08:02:36PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >Dixi quod… > >>Steve McIntyre dixit: > >>>we think we may have found behaviour bugs too, >>>but we can't be sure without spending even more effort. >> >>OK, just give me what you have, and I'll look at it, but I'm >>pretty sure I che

Bug#690381: Insane debian/rules

2012-11-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Dixi quod… >Steve McIntyre dixit: >>we think we may have found behaviour bugs too, >>but we can't be sure without spending even more effort. > >OK, just give me what you have, and I'll look at it, but I'm >pretty sure I checked them. I can't help but notice I never received even the vaguest deta

Bug#690381: Insane debian/rules

2012-10-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Stefano Zacchiroli dixit: >(which is in fact, exactly what happens during BSPs). Using something >more "standard" in your package helps tremendously those people who, >ultimately, just want to help you out. Right, but there are three points still: • At some point in time, I really needed mksh to

Bug#690381: Insane debian/rules

2012-10-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 03:10:52PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > >includes switching from the well-understood set of calls to debhelper > >and dpkg-dev programs to something hand-rolled. Please *don't* do > >this; it's not explicitly required by policy that packagers use these > >programs, but pl

Bug#690381: Insane debian/rules

2012-10-13 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Steve McIntyre dixit: >Right. I can see that mksh also follows a similar pattern. Any other >packages? Only these two, out of the packages I intended for uploading to Debian proper. >and the consensus of all the people here is "that's insane". Trying to >work out what your builds are trying to d

Bug#690381: Insane debian/rules

2012-10-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 03:10:52PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >severity 690381 wishlist >tags 690381 + wontfix >thanks > >Steve McIntyre dixit: > >>includes switching from the well-understood set of calls to debhelper >>and dpkg-dev programs to something hand-rolled. Please *don't* do >>this; it

Bug#690381: Insane debian/rules

2012-10-13 Thread Thorsten Glaser
severity 690381 wishlist tags 690381 + wontfix thanks Steve McIntyre dixit: >includes switching from the well-understood set of calls to debhelper >and dpkg-dev programs to something hand-rolled. Please *don't* do >this; it's not explicitly required by policy that packagers use these >programs, b

Bug#690381: Insane debian/rules

2012-10-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: pax Version: 1:20120605-1 Severity: important It seems the change * Build-Depends less package! Thanks to “goodbye” sample package! includes switching from the well-understood set of calls to debhelper and dpkg-dev programs to something hand-rolled. Please *don't* do this; it's not ex