RE: Q. about dh_make

[Yves Arrouye <yves@realnames.com>]

> Hi Yves,
> 
> > Any idea why the dh_make-generated rules call $(MAKE) clean 
> instead of
> > $(MAKE) distclean, which makes the diffs much smaller? Just 
> curious...
> 
> dh_make-generated rules call "$(MAKE) distclean" if this package has a
> configure file and "$(MAKE) clean" if it hasn't one. If the program
> doesn't use autoconf, it's not unlikely that there's no 
> "distclean" target
> in the makefile.

OK. I guess dh_make was confused by ICU's non-standard layout where the
configure is not at the top-level directory.

Thanks,
YA