"Dmitry E. Oboukhov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I don't understand why you'd ever run make distclean, ignoring errors or >> not, if the Makefile doesn't have a distclean target. If the Makefile >> doesn't have a distclean target, why wouldn't you just remove that line >> from debian/rules?
> There is no mention of distclean target/call in Makefile and > debian/rules. But lintian nevertheless produces a warning. Could you show me what line of your rules file it's warning about, then? I don't understand the problem that you're reporting at all. > This problem is rather political than technical. > Many DDs conceive lintian messages too seriously and want lintian > recommendations to be fulfilled before upload. For all that they do not > accept the variant with overrides. > If the distclean target is absent, then fulfillment of lintian > recommendations leads to the necessity of making a patch on Makefile. I'm afraid that your diagnosis of what's wrong is probably wrong. This warning isn't about running make distclean, and it's not triggered by the lack of a distclean target in your Makefile. It's produced by a very particular command in debian/rules that's bad practice and has a simple replacement. It's possible that it's triggering on a line that it shouldn't trigger on. I need to know more about the package and the line that's causing the error to understand what the problem really is. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
