Package: dpkg-dev
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: Enrico Zini <enr...@debian.org>

When debian/rules is not present and debhelper is in build-deps, please
have dpkg-buildpackage run dh $target instead of debian/rules $target.
For some packages, debian/rules is now pointless boilerplate that could
be removed if dpkg-buildpackage were to do this.

The CC to Enrico is due to his DebCon14 talk about debdry:

https://summit.debconf.org/debconf14/meeting/25/debdry-debian-dont-repeat-yourself/

-- 
bye,
pabs

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