On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 03:43:41PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > You are a very special case: a developer since very long time, with a > enormous knowledge of debian policy (and dpkg internal). > But I really think that most people outside DD use dpkg-buildpackage > because it is the easier way (without need to remember a lot of > details). I think also that most of DDs use dpkg-buildpackage.
My experiences are quite the contrary: people who are not deeply involved with Debian tend to run debian/rules directly, and the only Debian-specific command they know is "dpkg -i --force-depends"... Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org