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Re: debian/rules being or not a makefile



On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 11:16 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Why would we want to sanction that when the same effect can be achieved by
> > using a debian/rules of:
> > #!/usr/bin/make -f
> > %:
> >         dh $@
> > without risking breaking any existing assumptions or software?
> 
>  Which software would be affected?

dpkg-source -b, for one.  You can't put a symlink in the diff.gz.

Cheers,
Julien


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