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[jmroth+deb@iip.lu]

Hello there,

today, I have a question regarding the maintainers guide, which says:

"fakeroot debian/rules binary" runs "fakeroot dh binary" which in turn
runs "fakeroot dh binary-arch" and "fakeroot dh binary-indep"...

It does indeed work that way, but hadn't it better be:

"debian/rules binary" -> "dh binary" -> "debian/rules binary-arch" ->
"dh binary-arch" ...

I'm asking because in the first case, the binary-indep target in
debian/rules is never called (even for my "Architecture: all"
package). Or maybe I'm just misunderstanding something and this target
is deprecated and/or should simply not be used at all?


While we're at it, I got a second question: is it normal that building
a package using .orig.tar.bz2s in Lenny is not supported? AFAIS
building a source format 3.0 (quilt) package works flawlessly except
for this.

Thanks and regards,
JM