On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 05:58:47PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
Why would one want to switch that one to something else? The package, basically, consists of a shell script and a man page only. The minimalism of this package doesn't require an over-engineered dh sequencer, does it?
I maintain one of the simplest possible packages (in non-free), doom-wad-shareware, that is even simpler: it consists of three files total: /usr/share/doc/doom-wad-shareware/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/doom-wad-shareware/copyright /usr/share/games/doom/doom1.wad For the source package, I thought "why do I need debhelper for such a simple package". And so I did things by hand instead¹, and I still screwed something up². This is clearly a stupid case of premature optimisation, yak shaving, etc.; I suspect many other instances of "why bother for such a simple package" in the archive have elements of these too. (An unrelated, but amusing mess-up in this trivial package: for the first 11 years, there was a version mismatch between what was actually in the .deb and what the version claimed) 1. https://sources.debian.org/src/doom-wad-shareware/1.9.fixed-2/debian/rules/ 2. https://tracker.debian.org/news/449441/accepted-doom-wad-shareware-19fixed-2-source-all/ -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.