On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > Santiago Vila wrote: > > I would like you to elaborate on that. I think it makes sense that the > > more difficult the migration process is, the longer it will take, and your > > proposal complicate things in a considerable degree. > > That's simply not so. Whatever we eventually decide on, 60% of the packages > in debian will support it on the next build, because they use debhelper. 15% > more will use debstd and presumably support it just as quickly. That leaves > a meager 25%, some of which should to have maintainers who know exactly how > building a debian package works, and can presumably handle this on thier > own, and some of which have idle maintainers and won't be fixed anyway.
Yes, I agree helper packages would help, but those who chose not to use a helper package should not be "punished" for that. Thanks. -- "3a69292ea943bb2f9dfcc3b508b31ba3" (a truly random sig)
