Bug#482086: lintian should not parse debian/rules but use debian/rules -nq target instead

2008-05-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: lintian Version: 1.23.48 Severity: normal When using implicit rules, like %:, you won't see the target name spelled out explicitly. The proper way to do is to use the -q gnu make feature to know for sure if the target is here.

Bug#482086: lintian should not parse debian/rules but use debian/rules -nq target instead

2008-05-20 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.48 Severity: normal When using implicit rules, like %:, you won't see the target name spelled out explicitly. The proper way to do is to use the -q gnu make feature to know for sure if the target is here. debian/rules -nq target-name will return 0 or 1 if

Bug#482086: lintian should not parse debian/rules but use debian/rules -nq target instead

2008-05-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: lintian Version: 1.23.48 Severity: normal When using implicit rules, like %:, you won't see the target name spelled out explicitly. The proper way to do is to use the -q gnu make feature to know for sure if the target is here. We

Bug#482086: lintian should not parse debian/rules but use debian/rules -nq target instead

2008-05-20 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:51:54PM +, Russ Allbery wrote: Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: lintian Version: 1.23.48 Severity: normal When using implicit rules, like %:, you won't see the target name spelled out explicitly. The proper way to do is to use

Bug#482086: lintian should not parse debian/rules but use debian/rules -nq target instead

2008-05-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:51:54PM +, Russ Allbery wrote: We tried to do this earlier and it broken horribly because when you use make -n, you can get false negatives, and if you don't use -n, well, obviously bad things happen. Have you any