Re: Question about build dependencies.
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:20:32PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> Hmm I took the idéa from the previous java-common maintainer so that is
> why I thought it was valid... And I have got quite a lot of suggestions
> in bug-reports (do not remember if it is from other maintainers) so maybe
> such a check is a good thing. I would not be too surprised if it is
> a quite common thing in documentation packages and "native" debian packages.
In my experience it's rare to have such a rule used in the normal build,
but quite common to put the automated update rules in debian/rules
targets that aren't normally called. For instance, see the 'refresh' and
'orig' targets in doc-linux.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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