Matthias Klose wrote: > try to run the helper programs with -v. You get a pretty good insight > what's happening (although this may change, when Joey is switching the > current sh implementation to perl).
This will not change. I use perl for the backend now, but it just runs shell commands to do everything that touches debian/, and -v still shows those commands. > True, although you can save much using the debhelper options -a and -i > to act on all packages. > > > iii) Bugs in helper packages affect ones package, and one has little > > control over the time for the fx (Joey has been wonderful so > > far) > > Yes, I have to repeat this! Thanks, both. :-) -- see shy jo

