On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 at 09:03:15 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > Declaring the build target as "phony" is meant to solve this, > and has worked since at least 2009, so I'd prefer to understand why > that's apparently stopped working recently.
I think this might only have worked by mistake: fixing https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=880840 looks like a plausible reason for it to have regressed. In https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=880840#20, James Cowgill wrote: > Make ignores implicit rules (like %: dh $@) for phony targets. So we were meant to either do: .PHONY: build build: (insert a duplicate of the implicit rule for % here) or delete the directory; but it happened to work anyway because of a debhelper bug (#880840) which has now been fixed. smcv
