Hi, On 03.09.2012 18:55, The Wanderer wrote: > I have not been able to find any documentation on these stamp-* targets, > although searching has revealed that they or something like them appear > to be > (or to have been) used in a number of other packages as well. What are > they used > for, and how "necessary" are they?
They are entirely optional, in fact. It's a custom behavior to work around issues with pseudo-phony targets which aren't declared as such for some reason [1]. That's just one way (among many) to implement a debian/rules file. > There are deprecation warnings in the package which could be fixed > either in a > way which retains the stamp-build target or in a way which removes it. > Which one > would be more appropriate? If it is your package, do it the way you like more. Modern rules files (as in dh(1)) are typicially much easier to read. [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Phony-Targets.html#Phony-Targets -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D
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