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On 15.07.19 14:28, Masahiro Yamada wrote:

>> The rule file contains a rule for creating debian/control and
>> other metadata - this is done similar to the 'deb-pkg' make rule,
>> scripts/packaging/mkdebian.
> 
> I saw a similar patch submission before, and negative feedback about it.

Do you recall what negative feedback exactly ?

> Debian maintains its own debian/rules, and it is fine.

Not for me, I don't use it - given up trying to make anything useful
out of it. It's extremly complex, practically undebuggable and doesn't
even work w/o lots of external preparations.


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