Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?"): > Lo?c Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Why not promote these to requirements in a particular policy version > > instead? I fear we will have to list 10 Build-Options in all packages > > in a couple of years.
This is a much better idea. > Currently, policy says that it's recommended (the weakest policy > directive) to support noopt and nostrip. My main concern with increasing > the strength of that directive is that, depending on how demented the > upstream build system is, it can be difficult to support these options, > and since neither is used for regular builds in Debian, they're not > usually tested and aren't necessary for properly functioning packages. Surely we are planning to support these options in all packages eventually ? In a package where it is difficult to separate out the work for binary-indep, it would be acceptable to say: binary-indep: binary binary-arch: binary binary: build some stuff ? I'm tempted to suggest _just_ going by the package's Standards-Version. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]