> Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > > Adhering to a standard actually decreases complexity. What may seem "elegant" at > > first makes it a lot harder for other people to step in. For example, the > > VDR-solution IMHO doesn't decrease complexity, it merely hides it. > > Yes, it indeed hides some complexity. But it only hides the stuff that is > beyond the scope of the actual standard build process. It has no impact on > the maintainability of the packages. > In an earlier post you mentioned a pbuilder build process: If that is what you are using, why not go for pbuilder hooks? A hook named A<something> should be fine, as far as I understood. It should get executed after unpacking the source, but before starting the build. You could fiddle around with debian/rules in any way you like and you would (a) not need the special shebang line, (b) not contaminate the package _at all_ and (c) be happy :-) HTH, Michael
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