Bug#148932: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage -B should try build-arch target
Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.10.9
Followup-For: Bug #148932
Wichert wrote:
> Previously Duncan Findlay wrote:
> > Firstly, a test to see if something is a makefile can be as simple as
> > reading the first line of the file -- does it contain #!/usr/bin/make
> > -f (as policy dictates in 5.2)
>
> Wrong. Debian policy is just that, Debian policy. dpkg does not demand
> that debian/rules is a makefile and will not rely on make specific
> behaviour.
So make this patch Debian specific. You are both the upstream dpkg
maintainer and the Debian maintainer.
The upstream maintainer has a valid reason not to include this patch
but has the Debian maintainer?
You can add the patch in the debian directory and apply it at
build-time.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux seventeen 2.4.20 #1 Wed Mar 5 16:16:52 CET 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=french, LC_CTYPE=french
Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on:
ii binutils 2.13.90.0.18-1.3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii cpio 2.5-1 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii make 3.80-1 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii patch 2.5.4-11 Apply a diff file to an original
ii perl [perl5] 5.8.0-17 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-modules 5.8.0-17 Core Perl modules.
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