reopen 455512 thanks On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 10:06:04AM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > policy doesn't say anything about the bulid target needing to be idempotent > by > itself.
I didn't say Policy requires it. It's common to use "important" severity for FTBFS bugs that are nevertheless not RC. But feel free to adjust severity if that bothers you. > it does say that you can require debian/rules clean to be run > first-- which if you do should solve the problem with interrupted builds. Doing that can be really inconvenient when you're modifiing it. Every little change requires waiting a few minutes. If there was a reason for not supporting it in this particular package, I wouldn't bother, but running "mkdir -p" instead of "mkdir" is not a real inconvenient. > there are many easily constructable situations where running build twice in a > row might produce unwanted results (maybe if someone echo's or sed's onto > files in the build target and undoes them in the clean target). Which is a *really* bad idea and also defeats most of the purpose of using make in the first place. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
