clone 325372 -1 -2 -3
reassign -1 dh-make
reassign -2 dh-make-perl
reassign -3 maint-guide
thanks
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 12:54:02AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> A lot of packages, particularly those with upstreams that use the GNU
> autotools, have a very nasty habit of running the upstream clean rule while
> utterly ignoring any errors from it. This is very, very bad. Please add a
> check for it.
>
> An egrep regex to catch this is probably about as simple as:
>
> '\t[[:space:]]*-(\$[({]MAKE[)}]|make)[[:space:]].*(dist)?clean'
>
> See transcript of IRC discussion below for further elaboration of rationale.
[...]
While I think this might be a worthwile cause I would welcome if it was
mentioned somewhere before lintian suddenly tries to enforce it.
Preferably on debian-devel or some list like that...
As a first step I reassigned this to some of the packages that
teach people to use such constructs.
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
www: http://www.djpig.de/
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