Andrey Rahmatullin: > 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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