lintian: r1139 - in trunk: checks debian

[rra@debian.org]

Author: rra
Date: 2008-01-22 06:14:18 +0100 (Tue, 22 Jan 2008)
New Revision: 1139

Modified:
   trunk/checks/rules.desc
   trunk/debian/changelog
Log:
* checks/rules.desc:
  + [RA] To fix an ignores-make-clean-error, suggest removing "-" for
    static makefiles.  Thanks, Andrea Colangelo.  (Closes: #458164)

Modified: trunk/checks/rules.desc
===================================================================
--- trunk/checks/rules.desc	2008-01-22 05:12:11 UTC (rev 1138)
+++ trunk/checks/rules.desc	2008-01-22 05:14:18 UTC (rev 1139)
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
  .
   -$(MAKE) distclean
  .
- The leading - tells make to ignore all errors.  Normally this is done
+ The leading "-" tells make to ignore all errors.  Normally this is done
  for packages using Autoconf since Makefile may not exist.  However, this
  line ignores all other error messages, not just the missing Makefile
  error.  It's better to use:
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
   [ ! -f Makefile ] || $(MAKE) distclean
  .
  so that other error messages from the clean or distclean rule will still
- be caught.
+ be caught (or just remove the "-" if the package uses a static makefile).
 
 Tag: debian-rules-sets-DH_COMPAT
 Type: warning

Modified: trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- trunk/debian/changelog	2008-01-22 05:12:11 UTC (rev 1138)
+++ trunk/debian/changelog	2008-01-22 05:14:18 UTC (rev 1139)
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@
   * checks/menus:
     + [RA] Don't issue unknown-interpreter for maintainer scripts with
       weird interpreters.
+  * checks/rules.desc:
+    + [RA] To fix an ignores-make-clean-error, suggest removing "-" for
+      static makefiles.  Thanks, Andrea Colangelo.  (Closes: #458164)
 
   * frontend/lintian:
     + [RA] Include info tags in the broken-down description of the