tags 439390 moreinfo thanks Hi Dmitry,
Some time back, I sent you the following reply with respect to this bug. Did this make sense? Are you still having problems with this lintian tag? Please let me know. | "Dmitry E. Oboukhov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | >> I don't understand why you'd ever run make distclean, ignoring errors or | >> not, if the Makefile doesn't have a distclean target. If the Makefile | >> doesn't have a distclean target, why wouldn't you just remove that line | >> from debian/rules? | | > There is no mention of distclean target/call in Makefile and | > debian/rules. But lintian nevertheless produces a warning. | | Could you show me what line of your rules file it's warning about, then? | I don't understand the problem that you're reporting at all. | | > This problem is rather political than technical. | > Many DDs conceive lintian messages too seriously and want lintian | > recommendations to be fulfilled before upload. For all that they do not | > accept the variant with overrides. | | > If the distclean target is absent, then fulfillment of lintian | > recommendations leads to the necessity of making a patch on Makefile. | | I'm afraid that your diagnosis of what's wrong is probably wrong. This | warning isn't about running make distclean, and it's not triggered by the | lack of a distclean target in your Makefile. It's produced by a very | particular command in debian/rules that's bad practice and has a simple | replacement. It's possible that it's triggering on a line that it | shouldn't trigger on. I need to know more about the package and the line | that's causing the error to understand what the problem really is. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
