On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:35:48PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > What about optional fields in the control file with default values: > > > > Build-Arch: build > > Build-Indep: build > > > > (and therefore may be omitted), but that can be overridden in this way?: > > > > Build-Arch: build-arch > > Build-Indep: build-indep > > > > only for packages which really need or benefit from them? > > > > (What I dislike is a "format version", mandatory conversion of all > > packages to the new format in the long run, and all that). > > My proposal never called for that. In particular the rules.targets > option does not have this potential flaw by not creating a sense > that 'higher version is better'.
Ok, no problem then.
