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Re: generic debian/rules that creates directories



On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 6:11 AM, T o n g wrote:

> The upstream Makefiles was not designed to install into $DESTDIR but
> to /, so it assumes /usr/bin exists, while that creates problems for me:

In addition to the solution suggested by Gergely Nagy, please send
upstream a patch to support creating $DESTDIR/usr/bin and so on, as
encouraged by item 2 of the Social Contract.

http://www.debian.org/social_contract

-- 
bye,
pabs

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