Re: debian-policy: please document build profiles

2016-07-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Cyril Brulebois writes ("Re: debian-policy: please document build profiles"): > FWIW, src:linux already lets you configure a specific flavour and build > only that one: > https://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s4.2.5 Oh, cool, I didn't know abo

Re: debian-policy: please document build profiles

2016-07-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ian Jackson (2016-07-13): > Certainly it is very annoying that building src:linux takes a very > long time even if only a small subset of its outputs are wanted. This > is not relevant only for debugging, but can also be relevant for tasks > like security response: if I want to locally apply an e

Re: debian-policy: please document build profiles

2016-07-13 Thread Ian Jackson
> Quoting Javier Serrano Polo (2016-07-10 19:25:59) > > There is an introduction at https://bugs.debian.org/830524 . The goal is > > to build a subset of binary packages. For instance, the linux source > > package should have a way to build only linux-image-4.6.0-1-686 (profile > > pkg.linux.686),

Re: debian-policy: please document build profiles

2016-07-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Johannes Schauer writes ("Re: debian-policy: please document build profiles"): > One way to solve this, would be to change the build profile spec to > say that the Built-For-Profiles field is only to be added if either > one of the following build profiles was active during the

Re: debian-policy: please document build profiles

2016-07-12 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, I'm removing #757760 from the recipients because that bug should contain a discussion about the implementation of the current build profile spec and should not be a discussion platform for further additions or changes to the spec. Lets use debian-dpkg@ to discuss this issue. Quoting Javier Se

Re: debian-policy: please document build profiles

2016-07-09 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi Javier, Quoting Javier Serrano Polo (2016-07-09 21:40:35) > Where is this feature discussed? we talk about it on debian-dpkg@, debian-cross@ and occasionally I guess on deity@. Some discussion about build profiles also happens in IRC on #debian-bootstrap, #debian-dpkg and sometimes #debian-apt