Re: debian/rules being or not a makefile

[Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009, Julien Cristau 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 was wondering what software would break if debian/rules isn't a
 makefile, not particularly a symlink (I think you can have symlinks in
 native packages though).

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Loïc Minier