On 22-Nov-2000 Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Chris Waters wrote: >> I think Wichert was wrong in this case. I don't think policy should >> be in charge of every minor feature of the toolkit, especially not >> optional features. > > How many times do I have to repeat that this is *NOT* a feature of the > toolkit but of the fact that the path where the debs are made is > explicitly given in each and every debian/rules file? >
indeed. debhelper automagically decides where the files will be placed based on package name, so it too would need touching. Then you have all of the crufty rules files which have been in Debian forever and you have quite some work. Without a policy, I doubt we could get serious support or agreement on implementation. I for one would love to be able to tell dpkg-buildpackage that my debian/ dir is over there, use it.
