Steve Langasek wrote: > Given that you seem to have argued in this same mail for providing both an > intermediate dpkg-buildpackage switch, and introducing a Build-Options field > that would have to be populated manually, I'm a little unclear: do you think > make-first-existing-target is a sufficient solution for the buildds, or not?
Sorry, I switched opinions mid-message. I think make-first-existing-target is sufficient. More precisely, what I meant to say was that before I had thought carefully about it, approaches like Build-Options and so on were appealing, but after your advice, make-first-existing-target seems like a much better idea (because simpler and sufficient). > On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 11:32:13PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Thanks much! If you'd like, I can try out the two patches from >> Bug#598534 and send a comparison there. > > Thanks for the offer. How do you plan to try them out? Are you proposing a > full-archive rebuild? I am just going to try to break them. Cases like these: A. %: dh $@ B. build clean install binary-arch binary-indep binary: dh $@ .PHONY: build-arch build-indep C. something using cdbs E. ... typical debian/rules, plus: build-indep: false Meanwhile I would be happy to see progress on the dpkg-buildpackage side. Once the pieces are together it should be possible to beg someone to do a full archive rebuild before and after hitting the switch and list packages that failed to build or whose binary packages changed in size substantially (though as mentioned before, because "debian/rules binary-arch" is suppposed to work on its own already, I'm not too worried about it). > I think it would be reasonable to let the MIA team know about Manoj's > protracted absence (DevRef 7.4). Good idea. Will do. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110604212201.GA32338@elie