Re: [RFC] Extending required debian/rules targets? (Re: problem building ratpoison)

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

karlheg@bittersweet.member.dsl-only.net (Karl M. Hegbloom) wrote:
>>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Bialasinski
><martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de> writes:
>    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.

A lot of packages have a target called 'configure', especially since
newer versions of dh-make started adding it to the default debian/rules
files. Having that mentioned as an optional target in the packaging
manual might be worthwhile.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]