Re: debian/rules stamp-* targets

[Igor Pashev <pashev.igor@gmail.com>]

03.09.2012 21:53, Arno Töll пишет:
> Hi,
> 
> On 03.09.2012 18:55, The Wanderer wrote:
>> I have not been able to find any documentation on these stamp-* targets,
>> although searching has revealed that they or something like them appear
>> to be
>> (or to have been) used in a number of other packages as well. What are
>> they used
>> for, and how "necessary" are they?
> 
> They are entirely optional, in fact. It's a custom behavior to work
> around issues with pseudo-phony targets which aren't declared as such
> for some reason [1]. That's just one way (among many) to implement a
> debian/rules file.

I can also suggest to use *-stamp: such files will be removed by
dh_clean automatically :-)