On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 06:45:07PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > There have been various proposals on that matter, and it always boils > down to the same chicken-and-egg problem: > > - policy documents existing practice, which is to invoke "build". > - the existing practice cannot be changed because it would break packages > - the policy cannot be changed because there needs to be an > implementation first. > > To summarize the proposals so far:
You forget my proposal in bug #218893 to add a Build-Options control field indicating if the build-arch target exist, and the patch in bug #229357. So far I am waiting a decision from the dpkg maintainers. At the time the dpkg maintainers were strongly opposed to requiring the build-arch target but maybe things have changed. Cheers, Bill. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
