Bug#553420: debian-policy: Please clarify what is the interface for building binary packages.

2009-10-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > The proposed patch puts additional constraints on the packages, that > would make more difficult refactor later the Policy towards make a > clearer abstraction of the build interface (which I think is desirable), I don't believe this is desirable at all, and therefore op

Re: Bug#553420: debian-policy: Please clarify what is the interface for building binary packages.

2009-10-31 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Hi, Charles Plessy wrote: > The proposed patch puts additional constraints on the packages, that would > make > more difficult refactor later the Policy towards make a clearer abstraction of > the build interface (which I think is desirable), by for instance speficying > that debian/rules is an e

Re: Clarify rationale for ‘debian/rules ’ shebang line

2009-10-31 Thread Ben Finney
Tollef Fog Heen writes: > This should probably also be changed to allow «#! /usr/bin/make -f» > too. There's no reason to mandate one particular style of hashbangs. Agreed, I also prefer a space between the shebang and the program name. Please propose to ‘debian-policy’ a different patch and see

Re: Clarify rationale for ‘debian/rules ’ shebang line

2009-10-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ben Finney | === modified file 'policy.sgml' | --- policy.sgml 2009-10-21 20:49:37 + | +++ policy.sgml 2009-10-31 00:59:18 + | @@ -1725,7 +1725,10 @@ | | It must start with the line #!/usr/bin/make -f, This should probably also be changed to allow «#! /usr/bin/make