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I’m creating a Debian package for a piece of software that has no usable makefile at all. Should I put the building instructions into debian/rules or a separate Makefile? I’m tending towards the latter.
If I do create a separate Makefile, how do I properly include it in my source package?
If there’s any actual building commands (rather than simply installation) to do, my instinct would be to treat the lack of a makefile infrastructure as a bug in the upstream distribution and patch it by providing a makefile in the Debian diff like I’d fix any other upstream bug. Be sure to feed your fix upstream.
However, if it just a matter of running a number of
cpcommands to get the various parts of the software into the right locations in the file system when building the package, then I’d just put those indebian/rules.