Re: debian/rules being or not a makefile
* Julien Cristau [Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:03:18 +0100]:
> 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.
I thought exactly the same, but this could be a feature (the -> dh
symlink) that v3 source packages could use.
However, I don't think it's a good idea at all, and hope it doesn't go
forward.
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