+++ Ian Jackson [2013-01-16 13:50 +0000]: > * The concrete syntax in build-depends should not use < > but rather > reuse the architecture qualification syntax.
I have just been told of a specific reason to avoid using '< >' : DEP-11 proposes to use '< >' for Component metadata in binary packages http://wiki.debian.org/DEP-11 Should this profile stuff be written up as a 'DEP'? I think I missed the creation of DEPs somewhere along the way, but I keep seeing mentions of them. Aha: 'Debian Enhancement Proposals'. I guess that fits the bill. Just today we got patches to give apt (build-dep) profile support using -o APT::Build-Profile and sbuild to use that, so the missing piece to enable sbuild --host <arch> --profile <profile> <package>_<version> arrived. Which means that a bootstrap up to a buildd chroot can consist of nothing but a series of sbuild commands. (This doesn't quite work yet due to a a few missing bits of multiarchness, and a few packages that don't cross successfully yet (most notably perl). See my update at FOSDEM, and we'll do a summary from this thread in the not-too-distant. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130130172713.gt5...@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk
