tags 805995 + patch
thanks

I wonder what's the purpose of this in debian/rules:

binary-indep:
        tar cvzf 
debian/libargtable2-dev/usr/share/doc/libargtable2-dev/examples.tar.gz 
example/*.c example/*.h \
               example/README.txt example/Makefile
        dh binary-indep

The libargtable2-dev package is arch-dependent, so trying to add new
things when it's not going to be generated will not do anything useful.

In fact, we don't really want to add examples.tar.gz because
libargtable2-dev already has the examples in separate files:

$ dpkg -c libargtable2-dev_12-1.1_amd64.deb | awk '{ print $6 }' | grep examples
./usr/share/doc/libargtable2-dev/examples/
./usr/share/doc/libargtable2-dev/examples/rm.c.gz
./usr/share/doc/libargtable2-dev/examples/hasoptvalue.c.gz
./usr/share/doc/libargtable2-dev/examples/mv.c.gz
./usr/share/doc/libargtable2-dev/examples/ls.c.gz
./usr/share/doc/libargtable2-dev/examples/myprog.c.gz
./usr/share/doc/libargtable2-dev/examples/Makefile.nmake
./usr/share/doc/libargtable2-dev/examples/argcustom.c
./usr/share/doc/libargtable2-dev/examples/echo.c.gz
./usr/share/doc/libargtable2-dev/examples/multisyntax.c.gz
./usr/share/doc/libargtable2-dev/examples/myprog_C89.c.gz
./usr/share/doc/libargtable2-dev/examples/uname.c.gz
./usr/share/doc/libargtable2-dev/examples/callbacks.c.gz
./usr/share/doc/libargtable2-dev/examples/Makefile
./usr/share/doc/libargtable2-dev/examples/argxxx.h
./usr/share/doc/libargtable2-dev/examples/Makefile.in
./usr/share/doc/libargtable2-dev/examples/argxxx.c.gz
./usr/share/doc/libargtable2-dev/examples/README.txt


Therefore I would propose that the binary-indep target is just dropped.

Patch attached.

Thanks.
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -17,9 +17,3 @@ clean:
 install:
        dh install
        mv $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/argtable2 
$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/libargtable2-dev
-
-binary-indep:
-       tar cvzf 
debian/libargtable2-dev/usr/share/doc/libargtable2-dev/examples.tar.gz 
example/*.c example/*.h \
-               example/README.txt example/Makefile
-       dh binary-indep
-

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