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

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

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.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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