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

2009-02-17 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 assumptions or

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 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 Russ Allbery
Loïc Minier l...@dooz.org 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

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/rules

debian/rules being or not a makefile (was: Re: Proposed release goal: fix debian/rules build-arch)

2009-02-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 03:34:41PM -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:21:42AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: There are also the few packages in the archive that don't have a makefile as debian/rules. I've been tempted for some time to file RC bugs against all of them.

Re: debian/rules being or not a makefile

2009-02-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org 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