On Fri, 2021-10-22 at 11:18 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I had a look at the package and it throws a number of lintian errors. Are you > planning to address these or are they common for all binutils-$ARCH-elf > packages > we currently have in Debian? I believe you're referring to debian-rules-missing-required-target and debian-rules-missing-recommended-target. In this case, Lintian seems to not recognize that I'm using Debhelper via the .DEFAULT target in the Makefile. I've filed a Lintian bug for this (#983539).
If it's really bothersome, I could switch debian/rules from
.DEFAULT:
dh $@
to
%:
dh $@
but I personally prefer the former as a stylistic choice, and this
would cover up an area where Lintian should be smarter.
As for debian-rules-sets-DH_COMPAT, which is merely a warning, Lintian
has this to say:
> As of debhelper version 4, the DH_COMPAT environment variable is only
> to be used for temporarily overriding debian/compat. Any line in
> debian/rules that sets it globally should be deleted and a separate
> debian/compat file created if needed.
I don't set DH_COMPAT globally; I use it as a temporary override for
dh_auto_configure, and my source comments explain why I do this.
I would consider filing a Lintian bug, and still would if you'd like me
to, but frankly I'd like to keep the warning around as a reminder that
we should drop this hack when we're able.
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