Hi, Charles Plessy wrote: > The proposed patch puts additional constraints on the packages, that would > make > more difficult refactor later the Policy towards make a clearer abstraction of > the build interface (which I think is desirable), by for instance speficying > that debian/rules is an executable program that must accept clean, binary, > binary-arch, binary-indep, and build as parameters and honor the options > passed > by the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable, and leave the implementation up > to the maintainer.
I think there's consensus not to go in that direction. I personally would hate it if there were debian/rules written in Perl, Python, shell, make, Ruby... So I'm happy there are enough constraints in Policy in this area. Cheers, Emilio
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