Hello! On 10/22/21 12:46, John Scott wrote: > 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.
OK, makes sense. Thanks. > 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. OK, let me check this. I would assume that you just set debian/compat and work with that. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
