Hi

On 11 July 2012 17:12, Julien Puydt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Le 11/07/2012 17:05, Jan Groenewald a écrit :
>
>> Hi
>>
>> On 11 July 2012 16:48, Jeroen Demeyer <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]**>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 2012-07-11 16:02, Julien Puydt wrote:
>>      > Well, apparently some longer explanations are needed.
>>     I understand all of this, but that wasn't my question.
>>
>>     Let me try to phrase my question better:
>>
>>     Currently, Jan Groenewald has a Debian Sage source package which is in
>>     reality a Sage binary with some Debian magic added to it.  That Debian
>>     magic allows Launchpad to extract the binary and repackage it such
>> that
>>     end-users can install it.
>>
>>     Now, why cannot Jan Groenewald replace the Sage binary in his source
>>     package by a Sage source in the source package and then trivially
>> adjust
>>     the Debian magic to simply run "make" on Launchpad (not in the
>> end-user
>>     install!).
>>
>> Neither Launchpad nor Debian Magic allows one to trivially run "make"
>>
>
> Uh, debian/rules has a target to trigger a build -- and it can definitely
> run make. In fact, it generally does just that!
>

If you show me how, I'll maintain the from-source monolithic while work
continues
on debianization. Feel free to contact me off list with details.

Regards,
Jan

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