Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > James Troup wrote: > > Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > The $64K question is... is this okay? > > > > No; see the fine packaging manual. `build' is a required target for > > debian/rules (3.2.1) and if you omit, your package will be unbuildable > > with dpkg-buildpackage and as result will fail for all the non-i386 > > ports and anyone who tries to build the package from source. > > Thanks for the pointer. I will put in an empty build target to satisfy > this.
No, the build target should be present and should do something, i.e. build the package. Even if it only depends on the two other build targets, it should still build stuff. -- James
