On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 12:52:26AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > That's what they should do, the only real disadvantage is that it > makes the diff a bit bigger. But it makes the build much more > predictable and reliable. I wonder if a should in policy or a lintian > warning would be helpful. People will probably respond well to some example code that they can stuff in their rules files. A rule named, say, "dist" or "debiandist". (I'd lean in favor of "dist" since the Debian-ness of it is already implied by the name of the rules file: debian/rules.) -- G. Branden Robinson | Build a fire for a man, and he'll Debian GNU/Linux | be warm for a day. Set a man on branden@debian.org | fire, and he'll be warm for the http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | rest of his life. - Terry Pratchett
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