Re: Standardisation of the name of the patching targets included in debian/rules.
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:14:35PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 11:10:41AM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote:
> > I find personnaly patch/unpatch more easy to understand, but YMMV...
>
> I think (hope) that no one will be able to find a reason why the two
> target should *not* be called "patch" / "unpatch". They are IMO the only
> 2 that people will be able to guess out of the blue.
>
> So please go for patch/unpatch.
Fine by me.
Though if you dug a bit deeper I suspect you would find rather a
lot of packages that supply patch/unpatch targets under various names.
Perhaps a policy is in order? That way lintian and friends would
alert packagers to the problem.
--
Horms
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