Michal Čihař wrote:
> maybe this is not exactly a bug, but I just want to know if there is
> some reasoning for current preference of Makefile > setup.py > Build.PL.
> 
> The problem is that some Python modules come with simple Makefile, which
> allows some basic functionality, but does not necesarry all things which
> could be done through setup.py. In this case dh_auto_* blindly chooses
> to use this Makefile instead of setup.py.
> 
> Have you considered having different preference of build systems to try?

Rather than adding a lot of complicated options to dh_auto_*, if they
don't choose to do the right thing automatically, I'd rather you avoid
using them, and put the right thing in debian/rules manually. That's
both simpler, and clearer than a bunch of options.

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