Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.10.9 Followup-For: Bug #148932 Wichert wrote: > Previously Duncan Findlay wrote: > > Firstly, a test to see if something is a makefile can be as simple as > > reading the first line of the file -- does it contain #!/usr/bin/make > > -f (as policy dictates in 5.2) > > Wrong. Debian policy is just that, Debian policy. dpkg does not demand > that debian/rules is a makefile and will not rely on make specific > behaviour.
So make this patch Debian specific. You are both the upstream dpkg maintainer and the Debian maintainer. The upstream maintainer has a valid reason not to include this patch but has the Debian maintainer? You can add the patch in the debian directory and apply it at build-time. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux seventeen 2.4.20 #1 Wed Mar 5 16:16:52 CET 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=french, LC_CTYPE=french Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on: ii binutils 2.13.90.0.18-1.3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii cpio 2.5-1 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii make 3.80-1 The GNU version of the "make" util ii patch 2.5.4-11 Apply a diff file to an original ii perl [perl5] 5.8.0-17 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-modules 5.8.0-17 Core Perl modules. -- no debconf information
