Author: tille
Date: 2011-03-19 12:03:47 +0000 (Sat, 19 Mar 2011)
New Revision: 6313
Modified:
trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
Log:
Use dh in favour of cdbs
Modified: trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml 2011-03-19 11:41:48 UTC (rev
6312)
+++ trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml 2011-03-19 12:03:47 UTC (rev
6313)
@@ -331,13 +331,15 @@
touch packages only because it has an older Debhelper
version.</para>
<para>
It is strongly recommended to use the short
<emphasis>dh</emphasis> notation in <filename>debian/rules</filename> files
which makes code factorisation very
- simple and easy to understand the packaging for other
members of the team.
+ simple and easy to understand the packaging for other
members of the team. Even complex packaging becomes quite transparant this way.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="cdbs">
<title>CDBS</title>
- <para>The use of CDBS is welcome as it helps us to
factorise our code. Nevertheless, please do not use complex CDBS for
non-trivial packages, so that other developers can quickly understand the
package when doing QA work.</para>
+ <para>Before the short <emphasis>dh</emphasis> notation
of debhelper existed CDBS was the only way to factorise code in
<filename>debian/rules</filename> files.
+ So it was recommended in the past but it turned out
that CDBS is badly documented and recently introduced incompatible changes. So
it is sometimes reasonable
+ to switch from CDBS to <emphasis>dh</emphasis> if some
problems in the packaging might occure.
<para>It is technically possible to build CDBS packages
using Debhelper without the <filename>debian/compat</filename> file. Please do
not, and always include such a file according to the above guidelines.</para>
</sect2>
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