On 2016-07-21 16:18 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 02:21:02AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
>
>> Some of the new bugs are like this:
>>
>> make: *** No rule to make target 'build-indep'. Stop.
>>
>> Targets build-arch and build-indep are mandatory, and this was already
>> decided by dpkg author. This is not new, so I would raise those bugs
>> to serious now.
>
> A small clarification: What was decided by dpkg author is to drop a
> hack which enabled those packages to build successfully.
>
> The mass bug filing was announced by Niels here:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/04/msg00023.html
>
> Quoting Niels:
>
>> We intend to do another round of MBF for this problem once we have
>> located a way to break down the remaining packages into smaller and more
>> manageable sets.
>
> I think the second round of MBF did not take place yet.
It did, albeit a bit later than planned. See Guillem's followup this
month[1] and the list of bugs Niels has filed[2].
Cheers,
Sven
1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/07/msg00130.html
2.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=arch-all-and-any-missing-targets;users=ni...@thykier.net
