debian: remove .PHONY line completely
This does not work in the case of implicit pattern matching rules as
used by dh. Consider this example from Geoffrey Thomas:
$ ls -l
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 faheem faheem 17 Aug 16 20:27 blue.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 faheem faheem 17 Aug 16 20:27 green.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 faheem faheem 35 Aug 16 20:26 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 faheem faheem 17 Aug 16 20:27 red.c
$ cat Makefile
%: %.c
gcc -o $@ $<
.PHONY: blue
$ make red
gcc -o red red.c
$ make green
gcc -o green green.c
$ make blue
make: Nothing to be done for blue'.
The Make manual
(http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Phony-Targets) says
Since it knows that phony targets do not name actual files that
could be remade from other files, make skips the implicit rule
search for phony targets (see Implicit Rules).
Thanks to the good folks on #debian-mentors on OFTC for instruction
and explanation in these matters.
mercurial-evolve (4.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* new upstream release
-- Pierre-Yves David <pyd@marginatus.alto.octopoid.net> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 23:15:11 -0700
mercurial-evolve (4.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* new upstream release
-- Pierre-Yves David <pyd@marginatus.alto.octopoid.net> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 15:50:09 -0700
mercurial-evolve (4.0.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
[ Julien Cristau ]
* New upstream release.
[ Pierre-Yves David ]
* new upstream release
-- Pierre-Yves David <pyd@marginatus.alto.octopoid.net> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 15:48:16 -0700
mercurial-evolve (3.1.0-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* New upstream release.
-- Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@logilab.fr> Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:02:15 +0100
mercurial-evolve (2.1.0-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* New upstream release
-- Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@logilab.fr> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:19:19 +0100
mercurial-evolve (1.1.0-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* New upstream release.
-- Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@logilab.fr> Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:28:12 +0100
mercurial-evolve (1.0.2-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* New upstream Release
-- Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@logilab.fr> Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:38:47 +0200
mercurial-evolve (1.0.1-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* New bug fix release
* remove conflicting __init__.py
-- Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@logilab.fr> Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:31:03 +0200
mercurial-evolve (1.0.0-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Initial release.
-- Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:46:30 +0200