Quoting Daniel Schepler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > It breaks a widely used feature. Why should this change not be > > considered a make bug? > > In make's NEWS.Debian.gz it says this change was for POSIX compliance. And > since there's the simple way to rewrite these things that I outlined, I think > it's better to make our debian/rules and Makefiles compliant than to revert > this change.
Well, my first reaction is that this should have been coordinated or at the very minimum announced to -devel, which is not *only* a flaming mailing list..:) I even think that -devel-announce would have been appropriate. No offense intended for the maintainer, whoever it might be.... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]