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Re: Bug#553420: debian-policy: Please clarify what is the interface for building binary packages.



Hi,

Charles Plessy wrote:
> The proposed patch puts additional constraints on the packages, that would make
> more difficult refactor later the Policy towards make a clearer abstraction of
> the build interface (which I think is desirable), by for instance speficying
> that debian/rules is an executable program that must accept clean, binary,
> binary-arch, binary-indep, and build as parameters and honor the options passed
> by the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable, and leave the implementation up
> to the maintainer.

I think there's consensus not to go in that direction. I personally would hate
it if there were debian/rules written in Perl, Python, shell, make, Ruby... So
I'm happy there are enough constraints in Policy in this area.

Cheers,
Emilio

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