On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 11:52:23AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote......
> > > > > + -$(MAKE) distclean is evil, see Branden's bug against > > > > > lintian. > > > Did you look into this? It is #325372. > > > > Yes I did, and in all honesty did not follow it 100%. But that > > said, I've rewritten my rules file and now do not make reference > > to -$(MAKE) distclean. > The idea is that if the only reason to allow distclean to fail is > because ./Makefile doesn't exist (which is assumed to always cause > it to fail), then simply check if it exists, and run the make > conditionally, in an effort to be assertive, by doing more > fine-grained error checking. If make fails for any other reason, > then *let me know*! If the command doesn't randomly fail, then > you simply don't need to ignore the retval. > > You can find a handful of other discussions at: > http://g.rtfo.org/325372+site:lists.debian.org/debian-mentors Excellent references. I think I got it now. Have amended my rules file once more and have uploaded a fresh batch of files to mentors.debian.net. http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/n/nmzmail/ Just in case the message got lost in this discussion about the rules file, I'm still hoping that someone would like to sponsor this package for uploading. It's a wonderful little tool to have with mutt. Thanks, Kevin -- Kevin Coyner GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941 http://rustybear.com/publickey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]