On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 01:33:34AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bill Allombert <bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes: > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 08:31:50AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > > >>> The following patch implements the decision of the Debian Technical > >>> Committee in #629385 to make build-arch and build-indep mandatory. > >>> Please review. Note that I'm not looking for conventional seconds > >>> since the Technical Committee has already made a judgement; rather, > >>> I'm looking for wording review and for confirmation that I've > >>> implemented the Technical Committee decision properly. > > >> This patch has now been merged for the next release. Thanks, everyone, > >> for the review! > > > I like to defer it until wheezy is released. Indeed, the relevant dpkg > > code has not seen much real life testing and the freeze is not a proper > > time to experiment which the buildd and build systems in general. > > I'm not sure that I understand. The only change in Policy changes > build-arch and build-indep to mandatory from optional, and that isn't > something we're doing but rather something the Technical Committee > decided.
The problematic hook is the following: + This split allows binary-only builds to not install the + dependencies required for the <tt>build-indep</tt> + target and skip any resource-intensive build tasks that + are only required when building architecture-independent + binary packages. If you follow this recommendation, your package will potentially FTBFS due to missing build-dependency on the buildd, unless it has been fixed. I do not think this has seen real life testing at this stage. 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/20120901114911.GA30764@yellowpig
