On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Raphael Hertzog<hert...@debian.org> wrote: > forcemerge 229357 545081 > thanks > > On Fri, 04 Sep 2009, Zack Weinberg wrote: >> As is well known, dpkg-buildpackage -B does not know whether it can > > If you knew well, you would have known that this bug already exists... > it's #229357 and you're not helping us by opening a new bug report. > > dpkg-dev has a few dozen of open bugs, you could have looked at them > before filing this one.
I disagree that this is 229357. That bug is about Build-Options. This is a new proposal to *unconditionally* use build-arch in dpkg-buildpackage -B. I'm not going to play control ping-pong, but please reconsider. > No, that's not the way we handle things in Debian. The most likely > solution is that we're going to add a flag that maintainers can use to > say that they support build-arch / build-indep. Normally I would agree with you, but there has been no visible forward motion on any such flag since 2007. build-arch has been part of policy since 200*1*. I think that the advantages of decoupling the long-stalled and independently desirable build-arch change from the going-nowhere Build-Options plans well outweigh the disadvantages of an abrupt, world-breaking transition. zw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
