On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 04:34:32PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > 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.
Then someone will suggest that we ask newbies to create a binary package without a compiler so they understand how that level of the process works. At some point the line must be drawn. -- Jamin W. Collins
