Re: Missing pieces of developer docs?

["Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@braincells.com>]

On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Steve Greenland wrote:

> I seem to remember that there used to be a section of the
> (developers|policy|programmers|something) manual that described the
> debian/rules file: the required targets, what the were supposed to do,
> etc. I can no longer find this information in any of the "official"
> manuals. Will Lowe's "Ignoramus's Guide..." mentions it briefly, but
> is not complete. Was this information removed inadvertantly? Or has
> it just been moved somewhere non-obvious to me? (Ok, I just found it
> the new version of the programmers manual that Igor Grobman is working
> on. Unfortunately, the chapter on the rules file hasn't been written
> yet -- I'm not dumping on Igor, I understand the concept of "copious
> free time". Any, there needs to be a link to this document from the
> "Developer's Corner" section of www.debian.org.)

I've included a section on the rules file in the doc I'm writing.  Could
you take a look at it and tell me what you think is missing?  

http;//www.braincells.com/debian/make_package/

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@braincells.com>






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