On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 01:02:56PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > Joy proposed to put such information in debian/control instead. > > The idea of a new file was to ease parsing, but since it is read by > dpkg-buildpackage it should be OK. This prevents people from using tricks like debian/control.in. debian/rules.in is almost impossible, but debian/control can be generated by debian/rules. Also, having to parse debian/control to determine what format debian/control might be in is a bad idea. -- G. Branden Robinson | Convictions are more dangerous Debian GNU/Linux | enemies of truth than lies. branden@debian.org | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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