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Re: Renaming installed files



Tony Houghton <h@realh.co.uk> writes:

> OK, but more to the point I was wondering whether it's considered good
> practice to use a simple cp in install rules like this, or whether it
> would be better to add a quilt patch to make the upstream Makefile use
> the names I want in the package.

I think this is a place where whichever is easiest should win.  I usually
just cp or mv in debian/rules since it's less work than maintaining a
patch, but it can depend on the situation.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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