On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 20:42 +0100, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
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> I'm not saying that they're right or wrong. I'm saying that they're 
> there and it's obviously someones opinion. It also indicates that 
> something that doesn't use Makefiles is not accepted or harder to get 
> accepted.

I just submitted a email on this which I think answers the point. I
worry that it is way off-topic for this list though. The summary is that
Debian is Autotools/Automake focussed and any other build is a problem
for them. I think this is sad, but it is Debian's privilege to be
dictatorial on this for the Debian repository.

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