On 06/11/2021 12:40, Simon McVittie wrote:
On Sat, 06 Nov 2021 at 11:31:25 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
On 05/11/2021 21:22, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
build-arch and build-indep are required targets according to Debian
Policy section 4.9.
...
Unfortunately this is only a warning in lintian, which might explain
why so many packages are still affected.
lintian should move those targets to the debian-rules-missing-required-target
tag.
That request is #657390 (in cc).
When this was discussed some years ago, Niels Thykier pointed out that
debian-rules-missing-required-target is on the ftp team's list of Lintian
tags that cause automatic rejection[1], so making that change in Lintian
would make it impossible to do a sourceful upload of the affected packages
(for example to fix some unrelated RC issue) without also adding the
required targets.
This does not necessarily mean the Lintian change is a bad idea, it's just
something we should be aware of - expanding the scope of autorejections
should be intentional rather than accidental.
Ack, in that case let's wait until this mbf is done and some time is given for
the packages to get fixed. After that, I think this should become an error and
autorejection.
Cheers,
Emilio
