Re: debian/rules being or not a makefile

2009-02-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 17 février 2009 à 13:03 +0100, Julien Cristau a écrit : > > dpkg-source -b, for one. You can't put a symlink in the diff.gz. > > Is that still a problem with the quilt source package format? No. (But I don't like the idea of having debian/r

Re: debian/rules being or not a makefile

2009-02-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Loïc Minier writes: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Why would we want to sanction that when the same effect can be achieved by >> using a debian/rules of: >> #!/usr/bin/make -f >> %: >> dh $@ >> without risking breaking any existing assumptions or software? > Which soft

Re: debian/rules being or not a makefile

2009-02-17 Thread Loïc Minier
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > Why would we want to sanction that when the same effect can be achieved by > > > using a debian/rules of: > > > #!/usr/bin/make -f > > > %: > > > dh $@ > > > without risking breaking any existing assumptions or software? > > Which software

Re: debian/rules being or not a makefile

2009-02-17 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Julien Cristau [Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:03:18 +0100]: > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 11:16 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Why would we want to sanction that when the same effect can be achieved by > > > using a debian/rules of: > > > #!/usr/bin/make -f > > > %

Re: debian/rules being or not a makefile

2009-02-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 17 février 2009 à 13:03 +0100, Julien Cristau a écrit : > dpkg-source -b, for one. You can't put a symlink in the diff.gz. Is that still a problem with the quilt source package format? -- .''`. Debian 5.0 "Lenny" has been released! : :' : `. `' Last night, Darth Vader came down

Re: debian/rules being or not a makefile

2009-02-17 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 11:16 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Why would we want to sanction that when the same effect can be achieved by > > using a debian/rules of: > > #!/usr/bin/make -f > > %: > > dh $@ > > without risking breaking any existing ass

Re: debian/rules being or not a makefile

2009-02-17 Thread Loïc Minier
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > Why would we want to sanction that when the same effect can be achieved by > using a debian/rules of: > #!/usr/bin/make -f > %: > dh $@ > without risking breaking any existing assumptions or software? Which software would be affected? -- Loïc

Re: debian/rules being or not a makefile

2009-02-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > It seems that making debian/rules a symbolic link to /usr/bin/dh might > actually work for some packages (although I have not yet tried), so it > could be the perfect timing to double-think whether it is not as heretic > as it looks, as long as it would follow the Policy