Bug#346152: debian-policy: mp3-encoder and mp3-decoder virtual packages.

2006-01-05 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.6.2.2 Hi, #64006 and #64004 requested an mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder virtual package. I do not see the point in having any of those packages as virtual package. They're currently defined as: mp3-encoder an MP3 encoder package mp3-decoder

Bug#345619: debian-policy: 4.8. binary-{arch, indep} should fail with error code 2 -> must

2006-01-05 Thread Kari Pahula
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 11:23:43AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > Before going farther, I strongly recommends you read the > bug log for #218893. Good to see that this has been discussed before. IMHO the sanest thing would be to make build-{arch,indep} goals mandatory. It would make build-arch t

Changes to archive debian-policy--devel--3.6--patch-15

2006-01-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Revision: debian-policy--devel--3.6--patch-15 Archive: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Creator: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu Jan 5 15:29:21 CST 2006 Standard-date: 2006-01-05 21:29:21 GMT New-files: debian/stamp/.arch-ids/=id New-directories: debian/stamp debian/stamp/.arch-ids New-patches: [E

Bug#345619: debian-policy: 4.8. binary-{arch, indep} should fail with error code 2 -> must

2006-01-05 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Kari Pahula [Wed, 04 Jan 2006 11:37:46 +0200]: > The reason why I got to think about this policy change was because I > noticed that every arch's buildd was calling my build-indep and having > doxygen generate 30 MBs of docs. I was suggested on IRC to either > generate the docs in binary-indep

Bug#345619: debian-policy: 4.8. binary-{arch, indep} should fail with error code 2 -> must

2006-01-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:44:21AM +0200, Kari Pahula wrote: > But, since it's not a requirement for debian/rules build-{arch,indep} > to return an error when the targets are missing, tools such as > dpkg-buildpackage have no choice but to always call debian-rules build > even when building arch de