On 20010301T152221+0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > I'll make this a proposal then: > > Section 5.2 of policy currently dictates that debian/rules has to be > a makefile. While this is good practice, the only thing that is essential > is that it is an executable that will respond to the build, clean, > binary, binary-arch and binary-indep targets.
That is false. Currently policy defines the interface of a debian/rules and even some of its behaviour by saying that it is a Makefile. If we decide to remove that requirement, we will need to specify its interface and behaviour another way. > As such I propose that the statement that debian/rules has be to a > makefile be removed. I object to this proposal, since it leaves debian/rules interface and behaviour unspecified in many instances. And there is already another proposal about this. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%%
