Bug#439390: lintian: error debian-rules-ignores-make-clean-error
"Dmitry E. Oboukhov" <dimka@avanto.org> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.32
> Severity: normal
> lintian produces such warning even if no Makefile contains "distclean"
> target. It would be better if before creating such warning lintian
> execured a command like, for example
> find -name '[Mm]akefile*' -exec grep ^distclean: '{}' +
> and made a desicion of creating a warning only according to the results
> of its execution.
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?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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