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Bug#1114984: littler: please move away from deprecated CDBS build system

From	Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
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Subject	Bug#1114984: littler: please move away from deprecated CDBS build system
Date	2025-09-12 15:20 +0200
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On 12 September 2025 at 15:03, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
| Le ven. 12 sept. 2025 à 14:35, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> a écrit :
| > I should be able to simplify to a standard CRAN package build,
| Thanks
| 
| > | As an extra this move will also fix #985898.
| >
| > Can you be more specific?  This is still a 'special' package in the sense
| > that a binary is produced which is uncommon for a CRAN package: these usually
| > contain a package for R with or without a shared library part.
| 
| DebHelper has continued to evolved the 10/15 last years and a lot of details
| are now handler right out of the box: multiarch paths cross-compile,
| reconfigure, dbgsym (<- stripping)
| 
| All these improvements can make #985898 automagically disapear,
| ... or not, I cannot be very specific, it is just I gut feeling I got
| from the fact of removing CDBS/long debhelper usage from
| a lot of packages.

Yep!  Looks like "I am there" after a bit of fiddling. The package is
different due to its history of being binary 'littler' before becoming
'r-cran-littler' so I needed an adjustment or two to also produce the virtual
package little in the new scheme.

And the -dbgsym now comes out as default, that is likely what #985898 had in
mind.

Thanks for the nudge!  

Dirk

PS I think I may have one or two more ancient packages relying on cdbs which
may not be as easy to convert...

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dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd@debian.org

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Bug#1114984: littler: please move away from deprecated CDBS build system Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> - 2025-09-12 14:30 +0200
  Bug#1114984: littler: please move away from deprecated CDBS build system Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> - 2025-09-12 14:40 +0200
    Bug#1114984: littler: please move away from deprecated CDBS build system Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> - 2025-09-12 15:10 +0200
      Bug#1114984: littler: please move away from deprecated CDBS build system Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> - 2025-09-12 15:20 +0200

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