debuild/dpkg-buildpackage/... outdated wrapper scripts

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

With the recent dpkg-buildpackage, debuild wrapper is mostly useless.
(Except for some directory location for hook scripts.)

People get confused and documentation still refer debuild and other script
still uses debuild.  This should stop.

> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 20:37:13 +0900
> From: Osamu Aoki <aoki.osamu at gmail.com>
> To: jean-christophe manciot <actionmystique at gmail.com>
> Cc: 876024-quiet at bugs.debian.org, 876024-submitter at bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Bug#876024: marked as pending
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 05:08:52PM +0200, jean-christophe manciot wrote:
> > As I understand it, debuild is a superset of dpkg-buildpackage: it
> > also executes the lintian command to make a static check after building the
> > Debian package. This may provide some helpful tips about how the packaging
> > could be better designed.
> 
> It (=debuild) was intended to be so.  Yes, it's a wrapper script.
> 
> But with improved base tool (=dpkg-buildpackage) supporting many
> features, it has obsoleted its meaning of existence except for the
> service to older folks like me. With  --check-command=lintian,
> dpkg-buildpackage will run lintian for you.
> 
> I think I need to update (maint-guide)/debmake-doc accordingly.
> 
> Also, helper tool writer needs to re-adjust their tool.
> (Please carefully read what I wrote below.)

I also saw debi/apt overlap.

I see no point keeping debpkg now that we have fakeroot/sudo/... 

I recall James McCoy wondering how to deal with outdated code in this
package. 

Maybe we should let these commands print out warning messages.  But such
messages should be able to be turned off via ~/.devscripts

DEBI_DEPRECATION_QUIET
DEBUILD_DEPRECATION_QUIET
DEBPKG_DEPRECATION_QUIET

With README.Debian explaining their state with several releases without
major complain, we drop them while documenting new methods in README.

What do you think?

Regards,

Osamu