On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 04:22:37PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > I think we should first understand why the detection is failing with > the newer make. I'm taking a look now. Once that's done we might just > be able to fix (or workaround) one of: > > * make > * dpkg-buildpackage > * affected packages > > If none of the above can be fixed then I'm all for just removing the > detection code, although that might be painful, AFAIR the numbers were > a bit scary last time Roger posted them?
Back in February, it was around 14% remaining. When we originally added the hack, it was a bit under 50% supported. Primarily dh and cdbs usage. A lot of the gains are due to dh adoption since then. It's fair to say making the change will break a large number of packages. However... are these remaining packages actively maintained? If they are, the maintainers have obviously been ignoring lintian for quite some time. We've been quite kind in giving them two years to switch over; maybe it's time for the stick and forcing them to be updated if they are to be built again? We're likely well into the long tail of infrequently- updated packages at this point. If we can update the hack to keep it in use for a while longer, that's great. It will definitely ease the pain. However, we still need to remove it at some point in the next months, so planning on how to handle the badly-maintained packages is needed either way. 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/20140430143957.gs30...@codelibre.net
