[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Santiago Vila) wrote on 28.02.01 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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? The difference is that we write the packaging, but we do not write the program. Seems fairly obvious to me. MfG Kai
