On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:14:00AM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: > Package: developers-reference > Severity: wishlist > > Maintainers might decide to add a special make target to prepare the > source tree for building, i.e., that make target is run by the > maintainer after a VCS checkout and possibly before releasing new > versions. Possible reasons for this include reducing build dependencies > and ensuring that specific files are equal on different architectures. > Due to multi-arch, implementing such a target becomes more interesting. > Although I do not expect this to be used widely, I think the developers > reference should suggest a name for this target to archive consistency. > > The package debianutils already uses such a target and uses 'prebuild' > as name. The developers reference could adopt this name.
How would this relate to Policy 4.14 - debian/README.source? Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120217122801.ga20...@d-and-j.net
