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...
>
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/rule
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Except it completely breaks any hope to benefit of this new Policy
> > requirement:
> Uh, this isn't a new policy requirement. It's been a MUST in policy for
> years before you even applied to be a DD, eg.
Right; please strike "new" in my sentence;
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 06:31:50PM +0100, Lo?c Minier wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2007, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > Regardless, even requiring debian/rules to be a makefile doesn't
> > > actually do much, because someone could do something like:
> > > .DEFAULT:
> > > debian/irule $@
> > > or what
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Regardless, even requiring debian/rules to be a makefile doesn't
> > actually do much, because someone could do something like:
> > .DEFAULT:
> > debian/irule $@
> > or whatever.
>
> > People should be using make, but if they have a valid reas
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 01:42:03PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > I also could have sworn that we recently tightened this requirement,
> > but I can find no mention of that in changelog with some quick
> > searches. Am I just imagining things?
> It was ti
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 04:30:00PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> debian/rules must be an executable script with an
> appropriate #! line (so, if it is a makefile it must
> start with the line #!/usr/bin/make -f) so that it can
> be invoked by saying its name. It should use a
> widely-used
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:42:03 -0700, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > Regardless, even requiring debian/rules to be a makefile doesn't
> > actually do much, because someone could do something like:
>
> > .DEFAULT:
> > debian/irule $@
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:42:03 -0700, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Regardless, even requiring debian/rules to be a makefile doesn't
> actually do much, because someone could do something like:
> .DEFAULT:
> debian/irule $@
> or whatever.
I actually see this as a argu
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
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It was tightened about 2 or 3 years ago, iirc.
> Regardless, even requiring debian/rules to be a makefile doesn't
> actually do much, because someone could do something like:
> .DEFAULT:
> debian/irule $@
> or whatever.
> People should be u
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I also could have sworn that we recently tightened this requirement,
> but I can find no mention of that in changelog with some quick
> searches. Am I just imagining things?
It was tightened about 2 or 3 years ago, iirc.
Regardless, even requiring debian
* Ian Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070710 18:05]:
> 4.9 Main building script: debian/rules
>
> This file must be an executable makefile, and contains the
> package-specific recipes for compiling the package and building
> binary package(s) from the source.
>
> It must start with the lin
I see no benefit in changing this, which I think is the strongest argument
against doing so given that it's been an RC bug to have a non-makefile
debian/rules for both sarge and etch.
The advantage of the current rule is that we can make certain basic
assumptions that we would only otherwise be ab
Ian Jackson dijo [Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 04:30:00PM +0100]:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.7.2.2
>
> Currently, we have:
>
> 4.9 Main building script: debian/rules
>
> This file must be an executable makefile, and contains the
> package-specific recipes for compiling the package and b
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.2.2
Currently, we have:
4.9 Main building script: debian/rules
This file must be an executable makefile, and contains the
package-specific recipes for compiling the package and building
binary package(s) from the source.
It must start with the line
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