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From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@6wind.com>
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Subject: Bug#822666: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Bug#822666: fixed in linux 4.5.2-1)
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 13:10:02 +0200
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On 04/29/2016 12:09 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the src:linux package:
>
> #822666: linux-headers-3.16.0-4-amd64: deprecated syntax in linux-headers Makefile
>
> It has been closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>.
>
> Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
> If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a
> better one in a separate message then please contact Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> by
> replying to this email.
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>

Dear Maintainer,

The problem cannot be solved by importing a more recent version of the 
Linux kernel: the problem comes from a specific Makefile, which is only 
present in Debian

For example, the linux-headers-4.6.0-rc3-amd64_4.6~rc3-1~exp1_amd64.deb 
package, which is quite recent contains a Makefile with the same error:

/usr/src/linux-headers-4.6.0-rc3-amd64/Makefile:

----%----
  1	VERSION = 2
  2	PATCHLEVEL = 6
  3	MAKEARGS := -C /usr/src/linux-headers-4.6.0-rc3-common 
O=/usr/src/linux-headers-4.6.0-rc3-amd64
  4	MAKEFLAGS += --no-print-directory
  5	.PHONY: all $(MAKECMDGOALS)
  6	cmd := $(filter-out all Makefile,$(MAKECMDGOALS))
  7	all:
  8		@$(MAKE) $(MAKEARGS) $(cmd)
  9	Makefile:;
10	$(cmd) %/: all             <=======================
11		@:
----%----

The problem comes from line 10 which contains two types of targets.

Then I do not think the initial problem is solved by switching to a more 
recent version of the kernel (indeed the problem is also present in an 
even more recent of the kernel).

	Best regards

	Thierry

-- 
Thierry Herbelot
6WIND
Software Engineer