-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
I am pretty sure I'll regret to comment on this thread soonish, but ... On 08.12.2011 00:12, Gergely Nagy wrote: > I'd like to offer another option: deal with it, and instead of doing any > of the above (none of which would be a good idea in the long run, except > maybe the first - but I quite like this feature as it is), embrace > it, and extend it. I am one of those who see the upsides of this change as well. There are quite a few limitations in dh_install you can come over by using such a script in a yet semi-expected behavior as you get a well-defined output to anyone trying to understand a foreign package. Your own script-fu in debian/rules or external scripts isn't exactly the next best thing to read and learn how a foreign package works and there /are/ use cases where dh_install isn't flexible enough to deal with the problem by using the possibilities you had before. Renaming files and multi-arch support is what comes me in mind immediately. Gergely's idea to support standardized scripts to be executed also sounds like a good idea. That said, I'd appreciate if we could limit the usage to scripts in a more sane dimension. For example for dh_install only (I fail to see how it would be useful to other debhelper scripts - does any of you see a legit use case for another debhelper script?), and, most important, if we could limit this behavior to debhelper compatibility level 9 to not break any existing source package out there which might accidentally have +x on such a file. - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJO3/m5AAoJEMcrUe6dgPNtHjEQAI1+wFJADokc1VdY7L/miCIt 1ISaSWceOK1CHMQfDg1UK6N+MueWuF/KSIdrIACprjaYA2mm67ongyNWONT1MgeM lkkdqVeDL0LgJSSO3/DGkKNKXiAOO37j61S8aCSI/rfXVZU0WKsovUiyzv9T2EK/ IjzAKBKPCltOnqzMQMUnx91fotLD5Shh155q/rs02fB7wmN5xT1L3BTO7LLAC1Kj DOfpRVBLucL/rK4gSFpBJ3eL3zeSqtD3PXeOaqr8j3CwECThzT9KIVjq4ZeTGseT ky24qDmAS0odpoEhfNXev5EsP7oysLiX61ZTgSycB4y+BssRMo15HuJyD3KjFxvE 9LiPsYDUal2d/+Za2yDkfCMHd3aQmwn/n0SsFc1kqcgsCgX2PxL7s2w+ndAI1vYP g0FF9sizx6HLUndC2uXP4HvupKb+1YqkH14fPBLR62cDXJNRKZA8vcEegZ6+x/CL M7IUhuYxoFs1jEBmSXUV5YGNvldmAdNfIObLI18wGxNVfUpahf8/spYNxtcXFt4H wlJkX82i/nf2XeL3R2lSGBwYy+i/fQnV2m2R+eyM2CgomYumeqE7VXT4J5H6977l 1ptPaIm8PG+wL7X0g9UP4/qgPlvRJEMzwctEBHT3EfZ3iIMuc/3Hsclyo2MV2Yv8 mOMf1H/w9T3695QS5lwC =hmbG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4edff9b9.1010...@toell.net