Re: Bug#88029: Package which uses jam (instead make)

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 01:20:26PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> I'd be interested to see doogie's rationale, but it's amusing enough as it
> stands, because the policy still says:
> 
>           If one or both of the targets `build-arch' and `build-indep' are
>           not provided, then invoking `debian/rules' with one of the
>           not-provided targets as arguments should produce a exit status
>           code of 2.  Usually this is provided automatically by make if the
>           target is missing.

I believe something among the line of 
"Not-provided targets as arguments should produce a exit status code of 2,
but the converse is not true, therefore we cannot discriminate between
unprovided targets and targets that lead to an error condition."

Independently of the `Manoj vs Wichert' match, I would be interested at
fixing the build-arch issue at last.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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