On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 09:55:25AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > To help no existing packages today but make it easy for packages > > to opt in (and not break the others): > > > > 1. Introduce a Build-Options facility for packages to advertise > > capabilities like this. > > 2. Teach dpkg-buildpackage to honor it. > > I don't think Build-Options/Build-Features is a good idea, as stated > previously on these bug reports. For example most of my packages > already support build-arch/build-indep, now I have to also state that > explicitly? Buh. :)
Only for packages that would benefit from it, i.e. packages that generates both arch-indep and arch-all packages and have large Build-Depends-Indep dependencies. This stays an optional feature. No need to add it everywhere. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- 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/20110606113722.GB23589@yellowpig
