Bug#439390: lintian: error debian-rules-ignores-make-clean-error
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thanks
Hi Dmitry,
Some time back, I sent you the following reply with respect to this bug.
Did this make sense? Are you still having problems with this lintian tag?
Please let me know.
| "Dmitry E. Oboukhov" <dimka@avanto.org> 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 (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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