Bug#432564: Allow debian/rules to not be a makefile

[Jon Dowland <jon+bts@alcopop.org>]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 04:30:00PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
>   debian/rules must be an executable script with an
>   appropriate #!  line (so, if it is a makefile it must
>   start with the line #!/usr/bin/make -f) so that it can
>   be invoked by saying its name.  It should use a
>   widely-used language, and should restrict itself to
>   features portable even to older versions of its
>   interpreter.

Without weighing in with my opinion on whether or not this
should be changed, I suggest the proposed change limits the
scope of potential interpreters to those Essential: yes or
which are depended on by build-essential.

I haven't thought of a clear way of wording this, though.


-- 
Jon Dowland