Bug#482086: lintian should not parse debian/rules but use debian/rules -nq <target> instead
Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:51:54PM +0000, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> We tried to do this earlier and it broken horribly because when you use
>> make -n, you can get false negatives, and if you don't use -n, well,
>> obviously bad things happen.
> Have you any idea of why -n could get errors ? I've built a system at
> work that uses make -nspqr heavily and I've seen almost no issues so
> far, so I'm a bit surprised.
I think the problem was specifically with invocations of submakes, which
is how some packages end up implementing these rules. There's a bug
somewhere, but I can't find it at the moment. :/
> See planet.debian.org today :)
debhelper v7 is already fixed in Subversion, which I assume is what you
were referring to. Have you run into anything else?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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