hi, I've read this and like to give another perspective. Let me first introduce myself to let you know, what my point of view is. I use Debian since "Potato" was released. My first package was done with Etch. The packages I've created were packages just for my own. It has been 5 since then.
So, I'm not a maintainer. I'm just a user who created packages with no public need. Therefore - I think - there is no need to do it perfect. How came I throught this? Well, I just read the Debian New Maintainers' Guide. After a few minutes I realised there is no magic done here. After a few tries I could make a debian/rules that clone (or update) and checkout an git repository of upstream. my opinion: don't confuse flexibility with complexity. Complexity is necessary for flexibility. That's why I'm using Debian for more than 10 years. It's not just gentoos way, it's not just Debians way. Debian just give me tools to do it my way (TM) AND let me make it stable. It hasn't to be obvious, it had to be working. Just my 2 cents. Greetings, Björn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
