Gerfried Fuchs <[email protected]> writes: > Well, older lintian version surely also complain about other things > that are in full compliance with both current practices and policy. > That's why it switched to use "debian/rules -n $target" for tests these > days. Using an older and buggy version of lintian is quite an > interesting argumentation line if you ask me. lintian never claimed to > be perfect nor is this one of its target aims.
Lintian still does makefile parsing. It just does smarter parsing that understands wildcards. There are unfortunately a variety of problems with running make -n on debian/rules that we never did resolve. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
