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align debian/rules with upstream makefile discussion?

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danmbox
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align debian/rules with upstream makefile discussion?

#1 Post by danmbox »

Hi,

I tend to stick to a stable version of my favorite Debian-flavoured distro, and backport packages as necessary. Sometimes I can't find any debianized version of recent releases, which means having to uupdate the latest debian package.

Time and again I find examples of debian/rules consisting of tens of lines of dh_ noise, even though there's a perfectly fine upstream Makefile. I don't really care about the masochism / time-sink aspect of maintaining a duplicate build system, but when upstream makes changes, it is often difficult to adapt debian/rules. It's often easier to do a `checkinstall make install' and create a fake package than do a "proper" backport.

Is there some place where this issue has been raised? Surely this is madness, yet I can't seem to GIYF any relevant discussions.

BTW, my current focus is pymacs (0.23.1, latest upstream 0.25 fixes several un-usability bugs).

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