[RFC] Extending required debian/rules targets? (Re: problem building ratpoison)
>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Bialasinski <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de> writes:
>>>>> "Cristian" == Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn@axis.com> wrote:
Cristian> [...] and the same applies if you manually run
Cristian> 'debian/rules distclean' prior to 'debian/rules binary'.
Martin> Nothing besides you runs debian/rules distclean.
Martin> The required targets are clean, build and binary. Anything
Martin> else is just your private thing. No autobuilder,
Martin> dpkg-buildpackage etc. will use anything beyond the three
Martin> above mentions targets.
I think there ought to be a separate `config' target too.
Martin> It would be better, if you made the source and debian diff
Martin> available, so we can have a better look.
When I `apt-get source killer-app', I often do so in order to explore
the code, not just to rebuild it. I want to be able to run
"debian/rules config", to get it configured the way it will be if
built, but without actually building it yet. (Next I will use it's
generated Makefile to run a `make TAGS', or to build the
documentation forgotten by the Debian maintainer in haste of getting
the package done by the end of the weekend.)
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