Bug#536790: debian-policy: please clarify 'required target' in section 4.9
Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at> 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 quite an
> interesting argumentation line if you ask me. lintian never claimed to
> be perfect nor is this one of its target aims.
Lintian still does makefile parsing. It just does smarter parsing that
understands wildcards. There are unfortunately a variety of problems
with running make -n on debian/rules that we never did resolve.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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