Re: [RP] latest cvs now in debian

[Jonathan Walther]

Thanks.  Btw, please tell me, you were just using
"dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot" to build ratpoison before, right?

I am determined to free myself from the tyranny of debhelper. :-)  I
will make a makefile include file like what we use in BSD.  The current
problem is that the programs like dpkg-buildpackage, dpkg --build, don't
document very well EXACTLY what they do; it's hard to know where the
debian/rules file should leave off and let the other tools do their
work.  In other words, the interfaces aren't very well defined unless
you were involved in writing the tools themselves, or have read the
source code.

Jonathan

On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 06:29:07PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> > Gergely, can you explain to me how in the bejeezuz you were using your
> > debian/rules to generate a usable package?  I had to bang my head
> > against debhelper for 5 hours before I generated the packages I
> > uploaded.  If you download the source package, you can see what I
> > changed about your rules file.  Not that your style was bad; it was good
> > in a high-level sort of way; but it just didn't work for me.  It had all
> > kinds of tiny little errors.
>
> I'll have a look at it... the debian/rules hasn't been updated for
> sometime, so there might have been changes in RP which broke it
> badly.

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