Package: debhelper Version: 7.4.15 Severity: wishlist Hello,
it would be nice to be able to enable a dh addon without modifying the source package. Given this I think the best way is to have an environment variable where you can list supplementary addons to enable. I can think of multiple usages in various contexts (mainly in the context of derivatives distribution / downstream users of our packaging): - add the dh_buildinfo call because you really want the build information for as many packages as possible for debugging purposes - add an addon to strip data (think documentation for an embedded distribution) - add an addon to extract data from the packages during build (think ddebs) Cheers, -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.20-6 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii dpkg-dev 1.15.6 Debian package development tools ii file 5.04-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii html2text 1.3.2a-14 advanced HTML to text converter ii man-db 2.5.7-1 on-line manual pager ii perl 5.10.1-11 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-base 5.10.1-11 minimal Perl system ii po-debconf 1.0.16 tool for managing templates file t debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: ii dh-make 0.51 tool that converts source archives -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
