Bug#704657: debian/rules: Inconsistent required targets

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 09:23:07AM +0200, Philipp Hahn wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Severity: normal
> 
> Quoting from <http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules>
> > The following targets are required... :
> > 	clean,
> > 	binary,
> > 	binary-arch,
> > 	binary-indep,
> > 	build.
> ...
> > build (required)
> > build-arch (required), build-indep (required)
> 
> According to the lintian description in
> <http://lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-rules-missing-recommended-target.html>
> "build-arch" and "build-indep" should be added to the paragraph
> above as required targets.

Lintian is wrong: the official policy is the one written in debian-policy not in
the lintian code.

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

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