Re: Install /usr/bin/something from upstream source to /usr/bin/something on hdd?
Paul Wise:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
>> I see no reason why not. Whether it's easy to install the software
>> outside of Debian isn't really something that Debian itself should be that
>> worried about, as long as the packages in Debian do the right thing.
>
> I'd say we should encourage our upstreams to make their software
> useful to at least the rest of the Linux distros and at best the rest
> of the Free Software community, this seems to be in the spirit of the
> Social Contract. In addition we should probably point them at our
> upstream guide.
>
> https://www.debian.org/social_contract
> https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide
Sure, the effort required for that is minimal. (I managed to create a
non-Debian specific Makefile for "make install" that uses rsync.
Debhelper can pick it up from there just fine.)
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