Re: Install /usr/bin/something from upstream source to /usr/bin/something on hdd?
Andrey Rahmatullin:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 12:24:18PM +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote:
>>>> I see no reason why not. Whether it's easy to install the software
>>>> outside of Debian isn't really something that Debian itself should be that
>>>> worried about, as long as the packages in Debian do the right thing.
>>>
>>> I'd say we should encourage our upstreams to make their software
>>> useful to at least the rest of the Linux distros and at best the rest
>>> of the Free Software community, this seems to be in the spirit of the
>>> Social Contract. In addition we should probably point them at our
>>> upstream guide.
>>>
>>> https://www.debian.org/social_contract
>>> https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide
>>
>> Sure, the effort required for that is minimal. (I managed to create a
>> non-Debian specific Makefile for "make install" that uses rsync.
>> Debhelper can pick it up from there just fine.)
> I don't think using rsync to copy files in the upstream Makefile is a good
> idea.
Why is that?
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