%% Jordi Mallach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  jm> I've been trying to build GNU mailutils for Debian inside
  jm> svn-buildpackage, which copies the source to a build area using
  jm> the debian version as the path. Debian version had been until now
  jm> "20031103-1", for example. Now, it's something like
  jm> "1:0.4+20031231-1", and make doesn't like this, due to the colon
  jm> in the path.

Correct.  You can't include ":" as part of a target or prerequisite name
in GNU make (at least not reliably).

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