Please remember to send discussion of Policy proposals to the relevant bug instead of only to the debian-policy list. Discussion not sent to the bug is much harder to track down later when one tries to figure out the history of a Policy change.
Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Otavio Salvador dijo [Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 05:53:56PM -0300]: >>> While I agree with you that majority of people might do bad code I >>> also think that some very complicated packages (OO, X, Kernel and >>> like) can use it and make maintainers life easier. >> Maybe we should keep a recommendation for people to write makefiles, >> for ease of maintainability - but we should not keep it as a >> requeriment. > Yes, I agree on that :-) If we're going to remove this requirement, I'd like to get an opinion from the security team and ideally from the release managers first, since I think much of the burden of dealing with non-Makefile debian/rules is going to fall on them. My understanding of the previous opinions of those two teams was that they wanted to see fewer different build systems in Debian, so this is somewhat going against the grain of their desires. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
