Bug#458164: Lintian should not suggest the Makefile test for packages that use a static Makefile
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.41
Severity: wishlist
Running lintian on a .dsc built from a package that has a static
Makefile (i.e: doesn't use Autoconf or .configure) shows the following
warning:
"<foo> source: debian-rules-ignores-make-clean-error"
The -i option shows a deeper description of the problem and suggest to
change lines like this:
-$(MAKE) distclean
into:
[ ! -f Makefile ] || $(MAKE) distclean
This is not really required, given that for a static Makefile the test
is always false and make distclean is never actually exercised.
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