On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > I would like to propose that the debian/rules file is allowed to be > > non-makefile. Any kind of a program that can do the required stuff can be a > > debian/rules file. We shouldn't prohibit it when someone e.g. writes a short > > shell script or another interpreted script, as long as it works. > > I am against this. Grab the shoop package for an example of what this will > lead to. > > Debian developers should be able to read and if need be NMU another > developers package. Allowing rules files to be arbitrary code makes > this harder.
The same could be said about the program itself (not the packaging). Are you going to make policy that every program is written in C or perl? Where is the difference? [ I second this, but I would like to see the debian/rules "specs" clarified first ]
