On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 05:30:42PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 09/03/2012 02:56 PM, Igor Pashev wrote: > > >03.09.2012 21:53, Arno Töll пишет: > > > >>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. > > > >I can also suggest to use *-stamp: such files will be removed by dh_clean > >automatically :-) > > From what I can see, the stamp-* files seem to be removed automatically as > well. At least by 'debian/rules clean' from that package, which appears to > simply run 'dh clean' as far as I can tell.
And better, if you're using dh, it maintains its own internal stamp files so that you don't have to. -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120903220410.gk3...@codelibre.net
