Bug#432564: Allow debian/rules to not be a makefile
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Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> writes:
> Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org> writes:
>> Otavio Salvador dijo [Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 05:53:56PM -0300]:
>>> While I agree with you that majority of people might do bad code I
>>> also think that some very complicated packages (OO, X, Kernel and
>>> like) can use it and make maintainers life easier.
>> Maybe we should keep a recommendation for people to write makefiles,
>> for ease of maintainability - but we should not keep it as a
>> requeriment.
> Yes, I agree on that :-)
If we're going to remove this requirement, I'd like to get an opinion from
the security team and ideally from the release managers first, since I
think much of the burden of dealing with non-Makefile debian/rules is
going to fall on them.
My understanding of the previous opinions of those two teams was that they
wanted to see fewer different build systems in Debian, so this is somewhat
going against the grain of their desires.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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