[Build-common-hackers] Bug#508162: Bug#508162: Please document the "correct" order of rules and classes in debian/rules

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 03:10:58PM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
>I'd like to know if there is a consensus (i.e. a rule-of-thumb) 
>concerning the order in which the CDBS class and rules files have to 
>be included in debian/rules? -- I am thinking about a statement like 
>"include rules first, then classes"?

In principle the order does not matter.

But in reality, as you've experienced, it does.

Please file individual bugreports for each such issue that you discover.


At best such issues should be corrected to not exist, but if too 
impractical at least it should detect and emit a warning when loaded in 
a suboptimal order.


   - Jonas

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