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Bug#218893: Proposal: debian/rules.version file [Fix for the build-arch problem]



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.

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