Re: on de-supporting deb-make

[Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com>]

> * debmake is not in any way required to build Debian packages.  It's
> not a policy requirement, nor is it technically infeasible to build
> them without it.

I believe this -- but having, say, a "hello" package that actually met
the standard would make this a *significantly* more convincing argument...

> * I personally intend to cause debmake to become obsolete, so that

And of course, the best way to do this is to come up with something
vastly superior.  I look forward to it :-)


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