On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 08:10:00PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
> > I'm confused. Do you mean that the install target is "taken"
> > and packages may not freely use it in debian/rules?
> >
>
> Afraid so; it occurred before my involvement in debhelper, but I think
> it used to be more common for packages to also have an "install" target
> and debhelper basically mirrored that (with -arch + -indep variants).
I must be missing something, then, because today I've checked that
"dpkg-buildpackage":
- Works ok in stretch.
- Does only fail in buster/sid (I actually tried it in sid).
("dpkg-buildpackage -B" works ok in both stretch and buster/sid).
Fixing this is base-files would be trivial, of course, but before I do
that I'd like to confirm that it's a bug in base-files.
Considering that this used to work in stretch, are you sure that
debhelper is following the "specs"?
Thanks.
