On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:05:46PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > 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. IOW: you'd be fine with a policy requirement that is totally useless and isn't enforced in practice? What would be the point of that? I advocate requiring debian/rules to be a makefile so that we *can* depend on make behavior. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
