Simon McVittie writes ("Bug#858563: efl: invoking debian/rules directly does not work as intended"): > (But I'm sure lots of other packages have the same bug: no infrastructure > in Debian systematically checks for it, and for a user of Debian packages, > building with dpkg-buildpackage or debuild is always preferred.)
Maybe it is time to change the policy and say that one should use dpkg-buildpackage. Ian.