On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 10:16:33AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Josip> BTW I read what is supposed to be Programmmers > Josip> Manual. Unfortunately, this document is way way behind others > Josip> covering the same subject, and Igor Grobman is gone. I feel > Josip> that it would do more good if we removed this document (and put > Josip> it somewhere for archive), and moved Jaldhar Vyas' deb-make > Josip> manual in CVS - since if we are going to recommend using > Josip> deb-make for new maintainers let's do it with right manual (and > Josip> the latter one just needs some polishing to be proper). > > Wuh wuh wuh?? > > We definately are not recommending deb-make for new maintainers. > Despite what Santiago may say, debstd/deb-make is definately > deprecated. Any manuals suggesting deb-make are buggy and should be > fixed or removed, IMHO.
I wouldn't go that far, but I am also in favor of debhelper (dh_make is the black sheep of debhelper, thus separated :). I'd rather say, if we already have a *good* manual such as Jaldhar's, we should try to do something about it, not just waste it. Afterall, the link on www.debian.org/devel/ still exists. Either we get a new consensus on which tool(s) we recommend to the new maintainers or we keep the good manual. Is this an issue for debian-vote, or should just someone post to devel-announce asking for experienced developers' opinions about the recommendation? I'd prefer the latter, and that someone from the technical comittee does it (it would make it more credible). -- enJoy -*/\*- http://jagor.srce.hr/~jrodin/
