* Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>, 2013-04-04, 10:04:
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.
So much confusion in a single bug...Lintian is "wrong", because it still says that build-* are only recommeneded. This is bug #657390.
Policy is also "wrong" because it doesn't include build-* in the list of required targets, despite that they are described as required in other place.
-- Jakub Wilk