On Fri, 2021-10-22 at 11:18 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I had a look at the package and it throws a number of lintian errors. Are you > planning to address these or are they common for all binutils-$ARCH-elf packages > we currently have in Debian? I believe you're referring to debian-rules-missing-required-target and debian-rules-missing-recommended-target. In this case, Lintian seems to not recognize that I'm using Debhelper via the .DEFAULT target in the Makefile. I've filed a Lintian bug for this (#983539). If it's really bothersome, I could switch debian/rules from .DEFAULT: dh $@ to %: dh $@ but I personally prefer the former as a stylistic choice, and this would cover up an area where Lintian should be smarter. As for debian-rules-sets-DH_COMPAT, which is merely a warning, Lintian has this to say: > As of debhelper version 4, the DH_COMPAT environment variable is only > to be used for temporarily overriding debian/compat. Any line in > debian/rules that sets it globally should be deleted and a separate > debian/compat file created if needed. I don't set DH_COMPAT globally; I use it as a temporary override for dh_auto_configure, and my source comments explain why I do this. I would consider filing a Lintian bug, and still would if you'd like me to, but frankly I'd like to keep the warning around as a reminder that we should drop this hack when we're able.
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