On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 12:45:00PM -0400, David Prévot wrote: > Le 06/06/2011 19:26, Benjamin Drung a écrit : > > * Should we get rid of d/install, d/links, and d/manpages and make the > > Makefile more powerful (= revert those two commits posted above)? > > I don't understand the need (or definition) of a « powerful » Makefile > in a native Debian package. I think that using a Makefile to handle > installation that could be directly handled by debhelper makes the build > system harder to understand and error prone, and am not sure that going > back to a complicated Makefile as it was five years ago is an improvement.
I think having a clear line between "building and installing" and "creating a package" is a worthwhile goal. There's no reason we should require someone build a .deb just to have a properly installed devscripts. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[email protected]>
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