Bug#457501: lintian: quilt needed in clean target
Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de> writes:
>> lintian already will allow (and even require) quilt to be in
>> Build-Depends because of this. This looks like a specific problem with
>> lintian's understanding of this package, but cython doesn't appear to
>> be in the archive, so I can't check what's going on with it.
>
> It just went trough new
> ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/cython/
I finally had a chance to look at this, and the problem was that Lintian
didn't correctly handle double-colon rules. (It thought the rule was
"clean:" instead of "clean" and hence didn't notice that quilt was called
from clean.) This will be fixed in the next version.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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