Bug#432564: Allow debian/rules to not be a makefile
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:05:46PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 06:31:50PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> > So arguing that you can pretend that your rules are a makefile while
> > they are actually not is completely destroying the only benefit of the
> > requirement...
> Personnaly I would not mind if Debian policy mandated that
> 1) debian/rules should be a Makefile
> 2) Nothing (including the Debian policy itself) should assumes it is
> a Makefile or has any property expected of a Makefile.
IOW: you'd be fine with a policy requirement that is totally useless and
isn't enforced in practice?
What would be the point of that? I advocate requiring debian/rules to be a
makefile so that we *can* depend on make behavior.
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