Re: A list of common gotchas in Debian packaging
Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> writes:
> I do that all the time. It is much easier to see that a program is not
> being run if it is explicitly commented out rather than just "not
> there", as Makefiles tend to be executed in interesting nonlinear ways,
> and it doesn't really hurt either. Even the slowest of our buildds can
> skip over these lines in less than a second, while if I screw up with
> these lines I'm wasting a lot more autobuilder time, archive bandwidth
> etc.[1]
One can certainly argue both sides of this, but on this point in
particular, ftp-masters actually made a ruling and asked people to remove
the commented-out lines.
See <http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html> down near the bottom
near debian/rules.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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