Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:20:17PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:12:33PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:

>>> === modified file 'policy.sgml'
>>> --- policy.sgml 2009-10-21 20:49:37 +0000
>>> +++ policy.sgml 2009-10-31 01:10:42 +0000
>>> @@ -1725,7 +1725,10 @@
>>>         <p>
>>>           It must start with the line <tt>#!/usr/bin/make -f</tt>,
>>>           so that it can be invoked by saying its name rather than
>>> -         invoking <prgn>make</prgn> explicitly.
>>> +         invoking <prgn>make</prgn> explicitly. That is, invoking
>>> +         either of <tt>make -f debian/rules <em>args...</em></tt>
>>> +         or <tt>./debian/rules <em>args...</em></tt> must cause
>>> +         identical behaviour in each case.
>>>         </p>
>>>  
>>>         <p>

>> Seconded.

> I'm not convinced this is necessary, but I think it would be better worded
> as:

>    That is, invoking either of [...] must result in identical behavior.

I second the modification with this change, as I agree with Steve that
this reads a bit better.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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