Bug#704657: debian/rules: Inconsistent required targets

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On 04.04.2013 09:04, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 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:

afaics, lintian is perfectly correct; the submitter's reading of the 
quoted page is in error. The tag name and description both say 
"recommended" and I don't see anything in the description which suggests 
they are required.

> the official policy is the one written in
> debian-policy not in the lintian code.

And lintian isn't attempting to claim otherwise.

Regards,

Adam