I'm excited by version 7 of
debhelper, in
particular the opportunity for debian/rules minimization. I suspect
this will lower the barrier for rapid, reasonable packaging of simple
software tools in a way that should be easy to audit and maintain.
The most-minimized debian/rules possible with it is just (from
dh(1)):
1 | |
And all of the project-specific interesting bits go into nice, clean,
well-named files under debian/.
However, lintian (at least as of 1.23.48) complains loudly about the
minimized debian/rules:
E: xdotool source: debian-rules-missing-required-target binaryE: xdotool source: debian-rules-missing-required-target binary-archE: xdotool source: debian-rules-missing-required-target binary-indepE: xdotool source: debian-rules-missing-required-target buildE: xdotool source: debian-rules-missing-required-target clean
I'm not sure the right way to proceed: should i try to manually add
overrides for each package that uses a minimized debian/rules? Should
lintian recognize debhelper-specific minimized rules files and accept
them? Should debhelper assuage lintian somehow? Or is this rules file
minimization actually not as good an idea as I think it is?
I notice that mr, which is Joey
Hess's first example package using the minimized rules also reports
the same
errors.