Le Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 08:02:46AM +0100, Michael Tautschnig a écrit : > > Debian Policy 4.9 guarantees that the behavior of debian/rules will be the > same > if called as either make -f debian/rules or simply debian/rules.
Is there any piece of our infrastructure that needs this feature ? If not, I do not see much benefit enforcing it. As an example, I just downloaded the ‘hello-debhelper’ packages and replaced debian/rules by a symbolic link to /usr/bin/dh. The binary packages built fine with dpkg-buildpackage. (The source packages needed the format 3.0 (quilt), for which good news are expected soon.) The other example you gave, the -j option, is also actually a good example to show that debian/rules does not need to be a makefile (and hence does not need to be callable by ‘make -f’). The Policy interface for parallel building is DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS… To me, this is just another example of how the Policy is sometimes going too far in chosing how developers should implement interfaces, instead of simply specifying the interface. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
