Bug#88111: policy should not dictate implementation details
Package: debian-policy
Previously Anthony Towns wrote:
> It'll have happened during Manoj's incorporation of the packaging-manual
> into policy. See 72949. You'll notice you seconded it... :)
But Manoj said he would remove the non-policy bits from it, and this
would clearly fall in that category imho.
I'll make this a proposal then:
Section 5.2 of policy currently dictates that debian/rules has to be
a makefile. While this is good practice, the only thing that is essential
is that it is an executable that will respond to the build, clean,
binary, binary-arch and binary-indep targets.
As such I propose that the statement that debian/rules has be to a
makefile be removed.
Wichert.
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