Thus spoke Kai Henningsen <kaih@khms.westfalen.de> on 2001-03-03 14:33:00: > joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr (Josip Rodin) wrote on 28.02.01 in <20010228214133.B14278@cibalia.gkvk.hr>: > > > I would like to propose that the debian/rules file is allowed to be > > non-makefile. Any kind of a program that can do the required stuff can be a > > debian/rules file. We shouldn't prohibit it when someone e.g. writes a short > > shell script or another interpreted script, as long as it works. > > I formally object to this proposal. It does not buy us anything, it only > makes for possible complications. > It would make the Policy consistent. Currently, it allows maintainer scripts to be anything you would like. The only thing that is required is that they must be proper executables. They can even be binaries. Then why does the Policy force everybode to write the rules file as a Makefile ? IIRC the packaging-manual didn't require this, so when it got merged into the Policy, a recommendation was erroneusly changed to a must. Is that really good ? Gergely Nagy \ mhp/|8] -- ------------------------=]| 8@free.bsd.hu |[=------------------------ ..................... Powered by bread 'n water .....................
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