Am Dienstag, den 20.03.2007, 10:00 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: [..] > I am sometimes wondering what is the best approach for packages with no > makefiles : > > a) dh_install,
IMHO the perfect tool for this approach. > b) Write a Makefile, submit it to Upstream, and ship it in the debian > directory in the meantime. (as a patch ? as a file to be moved in at > the begining of the install rule in debian/rules ?). You don't need to move it. You can use the -f switch of make and put it, wherever you want :) > The advantage of b) is that it then contributes to trivialise the > packaging rules, especially if it is incorporated upstream. But upstream probably wrote his package for more than Debian. And a Makefile, that shall cover many Linux/Unix distributions + MacOSX is often more complicated, than a simple Makefile you write just for Debian packaging. That's the problem I see with putting such Makefiles into upstream, especially if the upstream author doesn't have much experiences with Makefiles. Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
