> Hi Yves, > > > Any idea why the dh_make-generated rules call $(MAKE) clean > instead of > > $(MAKE) distclean, which makes the diffs much smaller? Just > curious... > > dh_make-generated rules call "$(MAKE) distclean" if this package has a > configure file and "$(MAKE) clean" if it hasn't one. If the program > doesn't use autoconf, it's not unlikely that there's no > "distclean" target > in the makefile.
OK. I guess dh_make was confused by ICU's non-standard layout where the configure is not at the top-level directory. Thanks, YA