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Re: deb-make



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On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Ian Jackson wrote:

> Christoph Lameter:
> > Could you please be specific in what ways "debmake" is badly designed?
> 
> Packages using debmake have a `hidden interface' to debstd.  debstd's
> interface keeps changing.
> 
> I think that having a special tool like debstd determine what to do at
> run-time is a bad thing; it leads to unpredictability and fragility.
> 
> Instead, a template-based debian/rules generation scheme would have
> been better.
> 

Good point here. I prefered thinking of debmake as an help tool for 
creating a package and not for "building" one. Building debian pkgs msut 
be done with dpkg-dev. deb-make is a good example of help tool, such as 
build. 

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