On 2012-11-15 08:51, Thomas Koch wrote:
You're right about make. However the Makefiles that one needs today for Debian packages are so trivial that it's not worth to worry about it. The most basic debian/rules (which is a Makefile) looks like:#!/usr/bin/make -f %: dh $@ You only need to add additional targets if you want to override default actions. In that case you usually add simple targets with a few lines. We could switch from Makefiles to something else but it's simply not worth the effort.
Well, I simply don't think Makefiles are worth the effort.
But after all you don't need to do the Debian packaging yourself. It's even a bit infamous if upstream is also the maintainer of the Debian package for different reasons. Just be a good upstream[2] and find a Debian maintainer who cares about your software. The same thing for Fedora.
It's not thinking about making the actual Debian package, I was more thinking of building the actual software.
[2] wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide
I've read that page and from my understanding they prefer to use "make": "Please don't use SCons" "Using waf as build system is discouraged" -- /Jacob Carlborg
