On Mon, 2017-09-25 at 23:18 +0545, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Mon, 2017-09-25 at 19:20 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > This detection method looks very fragile. > > The rpm package in Debian provides /usr/bin/rpm, probably something > > similar could exist for dpkg/apt on a rpm-based distribution. > > > > I agree. I didn't like it either.
The clean target is called before the patches are applied. Which results in the build (the clean target) always failing. Upstream needs to fix the setup.py to not fail for such basic cases. > > > You should probably have an (optional) command line switch to set > the > > packaging backend (and skip autodetection in that case) and use > that > > switch from within debian/rules ... > > Yes. I'll come up with something. Thanks. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System
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