On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 12:24:18PM +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote: > >> I see no reason why not. Whether it's easy to install the software > >> outside of Debian isn't really something that Debian itself should be that > >> worried about, as long as the packages in Debian do the right thing. > > > > I'd say we should encourage our upstreams to make their software > > useful to at least the rest of the Linux distros and at best the rest > > of the Free Software community, this seems to be in the spirit of the > > Social Contract. In addition we should probably point them at our > > upstream guide. > > > > https://www.debian.org/social_contract > > https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide > > Sure, the effort required for that is minimal. (I managed to create a > non-Debian specific Makefile for "make install" that uses rsync. > Debhelper can pick it up from there just fine.) I don't think using rsync to copy files in the upstream Makefile is a good idea.
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