Bug#536790: debian-policy: please clarify 'required target' in section 4.9

2010-08-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Jamie Strandboge writes: > I agree that my suggestion is not as unambiguous as it could be. This > was only one possible rewording. Perhaps using 'implemented' for the > required targets would be sufficiently clear. Perhaps: > "At a minimum, required targets must be implemented by debian/rules a

Bug#536790: debian-policy: please clarify 'required target' in section 4.9

2009-07-13 Thread Jamie Strandboge
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > If the policy is to be read very strictly, then all of the required > > targets must be present in debian/rules, > > That's wrong reading, it doesn't claim so. It has to contain the > recipes - but it doesn't claim that they have to be in there dire

Bug#536790: debian-policy: please clarify 'required target' in section 4.9

2009-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Gerfried Fuchs writes: > Well, older lintian version surely also complain about other things > that are in full compliance with both current practices and policy. > That's why it switched to use "debian/rules -n $target" for tests these > days. Using an older and buggy version of lintian is quit

Bug#536790: debian-policy: please clarify 'required target' in section 4.9

2009-07-13 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Jamie Strandboge [2009-07-13 16:39:43 CEST]: > Section 4.9 of http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html > states that there a number of required targets for debian/rules. > Specifically: > > "This file must be an executable makefile, and contains the > package-specific recipes for

Bug#536790: debian-policy: please clarify 'required target' in section 4.9

2009-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Jamie Strandboge writes: > Section 4.9 of http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html > states that there a number of required targets for debian/rules. > Specifically: > > "This file must be an executable makefile, and contains the > package-specific recipes for compiling the package

Bug#536790: debian-policy: please clarify 'required target' in section 4.9

2009-07-13 Thread Jamie Strandboge
Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist Section 4.9 of http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html states that there a number of required targets for debian/rules. Specifically: "This file must be an executable makefile, and contains the package-specific recipes for compiling the pac