Re: Which targets are mandatory in debian/rules?
Mitch Blevins <mblevin@debian.org> writes:
> James Troup wrote:
> > Mitch Blevins <mblevin@debian.org> writes:
> >
> > > The $64K question is... is this okay?
> >
> > No; see the fine packaging manual. `build' is a required target for
> > debian/rules (3.2.1) and if you omit, your package will be unbuildable
> > with dpkg-buildpackage and as result will fail for all the non-i386
> > ports and anyone who tries to build the package from source.
>
> Thanks for the pointer. I will put in an empty build target to satisfy
> this.
No, the build target should be present and should do something,
i.e. build the package. Even if it only depends on the two other
build targets, it should still build stuff.
--
James
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