Re: Renaming installed files
* Tony Houghton <h@realh.co.uk> [100625 01:10]:
> 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.
Both is acceptable. I personally prefer to have as little changes to the
upstream files as possible and doing as much as possible in
debian/rules. In my experience, a large part of modifications of
Makefiles found in Debian packages are unnecesary.
Bernhard R. Link
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