Bug#983539: false positive (.DEFAULT?) E: debian-rules-missing-required-target

[John Scott <jscott@posteo.net>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.104.0
Severity: normal

I'm working on a yet-to-be-released package, binutils-sh-elf, which is
a native package. I've attached the source for your examination.

This package uses Debhelper. What I think causes the false positive is
that, instead of using a pattern rule like
%:
	dh $@

I use the .DEFAULT special target and also call mkdir prior, like:
.DEFAULT:
	mkdir -p $(unpacked_dir)
	dh $@ -D$(unpacked_dir) -Bbuild

The .DEFAULT special target, unlike pattern rules, is specified by
POSIX, and as Lintian indicates this is an error, I'd very much
appreciate if this could be fixed.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (2, 'unstable'), (1, 'testing-debug'),
(1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_USER, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                        2.35.1-7
ii  bzip2                           1.0.8-4
ii  diffstat                        1.64-1
ii  dpkg                            1.20.7.1
ii  dpkg-dev                        1.20.7.1
ii  file                            1:5.39-3
ii  gettext                         0.21-4
ii  gpg                             2.2.27-1
ii  intltool-debian                 0.35.0+20060710.5
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                 0.1.39
ii  libarchive-zip-perl             1.68-1
ii  libcapture-tiny-perl            0.48-1
ii  libclass-xsaccessor-perl        1.19-3+b7
ii  libclone-perl                   0.45-1+b1
ii  libconfig-tiny-perl             2.24-1
ii  libcpanel-json-xs-perl          4.25-1+b1
ii  libdata-dpath-perl              0.58-1
ii  libdata-validate-domain-perl    0.10-1.1
ii  libdevel-size-perl              0.83-1+b2
ii  libdpkg-perl                    1.20.7.1
ii  libemail-address-xs-perl        1.04-1+b3
ii  libfile-basedir-perl            0.08-1
ii  libfile-find-rule-perl          0.34-1
ii  libfont-ttf-perl                1.06-1.1
ii  libhtml-html5-entities-perl     0.004-1.1
ii  libipc-run3-perl                0.048-2
ii  libjson-maybexs-perl            1.004003-1
ii  liblist-compare-perl            0.55-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl          0.430-2
ii  liblist-utilsby-perl            0.11-1
ii  libmoo-perl                     2.004004-1
ii  libmoox-aliases-perl            0.001006-1.1
ii  libnamespace-clean-perl         0.27-1
ii  libpath-tiny-perl               0.118-1
ii  libperlio-gzip-perl             0.19-1+b7
ii  libproc-processtable-perl       0.59-2+b1
ii  libsereal-decoder-perl          4.018+ds-1+b1
ii  libsereal-encoder-perl          4.018+ds-1+b1
ii  libtext-glob-perl               0.11-1
ii  libtext-levenshteinxs-perl      0.03-4+b8
ii  libtext-markdown-discount-perl  0.12-1+b1
ii  libtext-xslate-perl             3.5.8-1+b1
ii  libtime-duration-perl           1.21-1
ii  libtime-moment-perl             0.44-1+b3
ii  libtimedate-perl                2.3300-1
ii  libtry-tiny-perl                0.30-1
ii  libtype-tiny-perl               1.012001-1
ii  libunicode-utf8-perl            0.62-1+b2
ii  liburi-perl                     5.07-1
ii  libxml-libxml-perl              2.0134+dfsg-2+b1
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl            0.82+repack-1+b1
ii  lzip                            1.22-3
ii  lzop                            1.04-2
ii  man-db                          2.9.4-1
ii  patchutils                      0.4.2-1
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]       5.32.1-2
ii  t1utils                         1.41-4
ii  unzip                           6.0-26
ii  xz-utils                        5.2.5-1.0

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii  binutils-multiarch     2.35.1-7
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.59-1

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