From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD173C7618F for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2019 18:56:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF04220665 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2019 18:56:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730064AbfGOS4q (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jul 2019 14:56:46 -0400 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.133]:49769 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729513AbfGOS4q (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jul 2019 14:56:46 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.110] ([95.118.111.244]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue011 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1M1q8m-1hktDo3NW4-002IRt; Mon, 15 Jul 2019 20:56:28 +0200 Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] debian: add generic rule file To: Masahiro Yamada , "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Michal Marek , Robo Bot , Joe Perches , Linux Kbuild mailing list , linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, clang-built-linux References: <1562664759-16009-1-git-send-email-info@metux.net> <1562664759-16009-4-git-send-email-info@metux.net> From: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" Organization: metux IT consult Message-ID: <5af9db32-2cf5-10ba-261c-e08852d0814f@metux.net> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 20:56:25 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:hvK93i77vK63kJTVR4ogArNlnN1zGWCxPx9UupprhwHlVosg/v0 j0b/K8jOzkk8IQGd6zTvTXIttqpqPDOa/vQJ6K+lweiKpu3XTPCF1PsDfD+FpzvZ8ILX0Dd 0h1xeqWSatCfp11/Q+2oKS663Zba5LW9n/+DoaJo2PHehzwiq6gWu/VefhpY+8VmkQzk/Nh IHWiacfDp8SZkIlFOYBoA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:T4r/34V3t5w=:2rgr2ucWxg6EpGWRp2svKn U/llQSqutZffji1Y8HCfGG1iiOz+u6KFT0IuJFO30ifmk3PaofKKmuEY4PWGfclsHupikXcvj /WAxt3yfidQ9sgUSfMInSbGS4x4COeTwMmYxoiLykImPGUxfehOsSEsrRyC3IultacUimaeBu 2OpvAGJWblV1cMCmTRRYWmjIZHDYdR33iyoCM6IS1c14ikVwmtw+nQPGRJr/1UbutG/gEsdok xaIG3jzezjviI1Op/sM/PjFsp7jLN7PQe3f1hGidripJKFdoo8HlNTE2LKX7jcextl73gHvE1 uzL0xyhCzNuvu9szCJfhDYuA6W7TYk3NXGiTA4h8Su34UXNQ7g7HFZabw50pn7aAk6A6VP2QR 4mSMwBkAVn1S4g4ZDmTi3ft5hVO6jhx8WhkpFYkRzwTXm8YEPT5yxb1Ji7ESlE9mPNGCqP12/ d7rejThQzZZjz24LuHoc5Bj+/dWK8DKrUhHGtcVLtIpFW3ONdoxEyzNR0amq+LabkcgKnsuW6 E/5C6l8Lwn90gIVvAHbxaR9OkJUFhXBajOxriYFSfuQM5b++BZOifD5YnimBQn88bWY4RWZic 0AG5MDj0fs8MCTym1ZOX2Z7DAtu0QzEpox/8Sh6lbYKKJfCOcjWnEWbSHPf3HI5huNTVA87Do CkAhQtNiaVP1GfIkR7oGs+Ng/FUP1SFjOz3WBW7NWh48Q4Wotgt2gfwPEj8N8mSegQa3f5GYu D8W7h6UiPOuIDZnaJwpBzsc4UK8uoto/4Mt8RibCun/1XFKSKKFnzOXdnqQ= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 15.07.19 14:28, Masahiro Yamada wrote: >> The rule file contains a rule for creating debian/control and >> other metadata - this is done similar to the 'deb-pkg' make rule, >> scripts/packaging/mkdebian. > > I saw a similar patch submission before, and negative feedback about it. Do you recall what negative feedback exactly ? > Debian maintains its own debian/rules, and it is fine. Not for me, I don't use it - given up trying to make anything useful out of it. It's extremly complex, practically undebuggable and doesn't even work w/o lots of external preparations. --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering info@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287