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Re: alternative debian/rules



On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:05:30PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> For the record, I completely disagree with this packaging advice.  Why
> carry an upstream patch when you can handle this easily during build time?

As much as I dislike quilt, at least it makes it easy to see what
change Debian is making, with regards to upstream. Embedding commands
into debian/rules that modify the sources during a build is much harder
to spot.

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