On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 09:53:31PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@ieee.org> writes: > > On Tue, Apr 29 2014, Felipe Sateler wrote: > >> On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 23:01:58 -0700, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > 3) We state that packages must provide build-arch and build-indep for > > Jessie. This should trivially be true for every package using cdbs > > or debhelper (or, heaven forbid, my old home brew build system), > > and have dpkg-buildpackage call them without testing to see if they > > exist. We would need to do another archive rebuild with the > > modified dpkg-buildpackage to see how many packages do not > > actually not implement these targets. > > Well, 2 is going back on something that we're trying to transition, and 1 > seems obviously unacceptable. 3 is where we were trying to get to anyway. > I vote for just biting the bullet and trying to do 3 for jessie.
This transitional workaround has been in place for a decent length of time now (over two years). We wanted it removed for jessie; the "make -qn" hack was known to be fragile, but worked enough to allow the transition to be done effectively, and was never planned to exist except for the short term during the transition, which is now progressed quite well. I posted some stats on it a couple of months back. This may be an opportune time to remove the nasty hack and mandate the use of the policy-defined targets. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140430080051.gr30...@codelibre.net
