Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hopefully this will work on both versions, but again I don't have easy >> access >> to an old make to test it. There's also the suggestion elsewhere in the >> thread to put the script in a make variable instead. > > I really think that the maintainers of a central package like make, be > it upstream or you,
Sorry that i didn't check this - I thought that you, Daniel, were the make maintainer (thanks Adeodato). The rest of my statement still holds, > should consider such a change thoroughly and in fact > test alternatives *before* the release or upload. And a sarge or even > woody pbuilder chroot is just a couple of commands away. Probably you > can even install sarge's make_...deb in a sid or etch chroot. But now I should add that they should also communicate the alternatives for writing Makefiles that work with old and new makes. NEWS.gz and NEWS.Debian.gz both have an entry about the change, both point to the info file (to two different nodes that I cannot find with that exact names), and at the place where I think I'm referred to only the new behavior is explained... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
