Re: Question to dh_installdocs
>>>>> "Michelle" == Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de> writes:
Michelle> Am 2005-03-03 21:13:16, schrieb Justin Pryzby:
>> Is dh_installdocs being called by the "binary" rule?
>>
>> Rereading your original message, it is not clear if that particular
>> invocation of debian/rules is with fake root privlidges.
>> Empirically, "binary" and "clean" have fakeroot, and "build" does
>> not.
Michelle> Where is it written ? I was reading all maintainer/developer
Michelle> manuals/references...
Well, he said "empirically"...
Michelle> __( '/home/michelle.konzack/src/stuffit-520/debian/rules'
Michelle> / | #!/usr/bin/make -f | # | # Rules for making
...
Michelle> | build: directories decompress install
build is supposed to just compile. It doesn't install.
>From the Policy Manual, section 4.8:
"The build target must not do anything that might require root
privilege."
...
Michelle> | binary:
Again, from Policy section 4.8:
"The binary target must be all that is necessary for the user to build
the binary package(s) produced from this source package."
Hence binary should depend on build, install, etc.
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