[maemo-developers] Debhelper 7

[From: Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Tuesday 15 December 2009 22:10:39 ext Jeremiah Foster, you wrote:
> > * debian/compat:  7 -> 5
> > * debian/control: Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7) -> debhelper (>= 5)
> > * And maybe comment out a few dh_* calls from debian/rules, which
> > might not exist on level 5
> 
> One of the huge advantages of moving to debhelper 7 compat is that you can
>  have your debian/rules files look like this:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/make -f
> %:
> 	dh $@
> 
> Simple. You pass everything off to debhelper.

That takes care of the packaging part, but not the building part or does it? 
AFAICT, if you really want short and implicit rules, you could use CDBS. That 
works fine with any debhelper from version 4 and up.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
Nokia Devices R&D, Maemo Software, Helsinki