Kevin Rosenberg wrote: > As an application manager, I find a significant percentage of NM > applicants are confused between the inputs to debhelper and the actual > structure of a Debian package. As just one example, I ask NM > applicants where the version number is stored in a debian package. The > most common (and incorrect) answer is debian/changelog because > debhelper users learn that's where debhelper looks for the version > number.
Except, of course for the fact that debhelper does not have anything to do with getting the version number out of debian/changelog and into debian/foo/DEBIAN/control in the binary packge. Perhaps you should instead ask newbies to package stuff without the aid of dpkg-dev. :-P I'll bet that a *lot* of people do not know exactly how substvars work, for example. -- see shy jo
pgpbKY9wrveQx.pgp
Description: PGP signature
