Re: Install /usr/bin/something from upstream source to /usr/bin/something on hdd?
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 12:24:18PM +0000, Patrick Schleizer 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.)
I don't think using rsync to copy files in the upstream Makefile is a good
idea.
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