Re: dh 7 broken by design?

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

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Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> writes:

> > > However that one does not work with implicit dependencies and
> > > results in make thinking there is nothing to be done.

Here, you state that something about a ‘debian/rules’ file “does not
work”.

> > Can you give an example of a ???debian/rules??? that does not
> > work, and what the desired behaviour would be?
> 
> Well my basic idea was to add a .PHONY line to the 3-line example like:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/make -f
> %:
> 	$@
> .PHONY:build clean install binary-arch binary-indep binary

What is it about this ‘debian/rules’ file that “does not work”, as
you said in your original message? What behaviour is expected, and
what behaviour do you get instead?

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Ben Finney