Bug#4627: gawk" clean target prevents build

[Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com>]

'llucius wrote:'
>
>Package: gawk
>Version: 3.0.0-4
>
>1)  "debian/rules" clean target does not ignore errors when doing the 
>    "make distclean" which causes the build to fail since there's nothing 
>    to clean (not even a Makefile).

Would you believe I ran into this problem when making my last build.
So I just ran "debian/rules build".  I'm not sure:  don't the policy
or programmer manual say that the rules file should fail on errors?  I
suppose could make it more robust.  But I probably won't release a new
version (nor close the bug) until I can do something more substantial
too.

Boy you must check Incoming daily :)

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