xvidcore broken - ok to use CDBS?

Felipe Sateler fsateler at debian.org
Mon Sep 13 11:58:58 UTC 2010


On 13/09/10 07:52, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> 
>> * I will no longer offer my help with issues that could be solved
>> using either short-form dh or CDBS - except when CDBS is already used.
> 
> But I still fail to understand this point. If for example a package
> using short-form dh7 in debian/rules needs a patch to the source or is
> missing a file reference in debian/foo.install, what keeps you from
> contributing?

The issue at hand was solvable by either:

1- Dropping the patch, using a CDBS feature
2- Dropping the patch, using dh-autoreconf
3- Modifying the patch.



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