* 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 > > > %: > > > dh $@ > > > without risking breaking any existing assumptions or software?
> > Which software would be affected? > dpkg-source -b, for one. You can't put a symlink in the diff.gz. I thought exactly the same, but this could be a feature (the -> dh symlink) that v3 source packages could use. However, I don't think it's a good idea at all, and hope it doesn't go forward. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. -- Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org