On Thu Oct 29 15:58, Michael Banck wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:37:20AM +0100, Tobi wrote: > > Are there any serious objections against just overriding and ignoring > > the Linitan warning about not having "make -f" in the shebang line? > > As long as you don't have an objection against having serious bugs filed > and your packages not be part of a stable Debian release, I guess not. put me in the camp that doesn't think this is necessary. If it behaves precisely the same way as a makefile which does have that shbang line when compiling the standard Debian package I really don't think there is a problem with this. I'm also against the suggestion which reduces debian/rules to: ifeq (....) include real-debian-rules.mk else include alternate-debian-rules.mk endif At least the VDR solution means that if I just care about fixing the package in normal Debian mode, I can look at Debian rules and see what's going on, not have to go look at some other file which contains the real debian/rules. This is all far nicer than (for example) the packaging for the kernel, which is really scary, but does have the right shbang line. Matt -- Matthew Johnson
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