Hi Jose, If you think writting a new makefile is better than patching the upstream build system, please go ahead. However, having to write a makefiles by oneself often signifies problematic upstream.
On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 11:35:52AM +0100, Jose G. López wrote: > Dear mentors, > > Is it permitted by the Debian Policy to have a personalized makefile inside > debian > directory and call it from rules file? Or I should patch the upstream's > makefile completly? > > I'm packaging fathom[0][1] and can't find an answer. > Thanks and sorry if the answer is obvious. > > Regards, > > [0] Bug#915242: fathom -- Library for probing Syzygy tablebases [ITP] > [1] https://salsa.debian.org/josgalo-guest/fathom.git (test branch)
