Re: Deb structure - general question

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Ryszard Lach <siaco@id.pl> wrote:
> I was on Linux Conference in Warsaw (Oct '98), and there Tomasz
> Kloczko said, that in deb specification of packet building is not
> clearly separated from sources, and this could be a problem in the
> future in maintainig plenty of packets. Could someone explain it to
> me?

I think he's referring to the nature of debian/rules.

To compile the program, you perform debian/rules build

To build the package, you perform debian/rules binary

I'm not sure what issue he's trying to address, however.

-- 
Raul