Re: Autobuilding and the build-arch target, again

2006-01-25 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Wouter Verhelst [Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:14:26 +0100]: > Yes, but only if packages who declare build-depends-indep without having > build-arch exist. Anyone feel like finding that out? ;-) Simon run a test through the archive prior to sending his mail, to find out. -- Adeodato Simó

Re: Autobuilding and the build-arch target, again

2006-01-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 11:21:55PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 11:08:00PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > And I would strongly suggest you to consider Simon Richter's proposal, > > which sounds a lot cleaner to me: if you have build-depends-indep in > > your debian/cont

Re: Autobuilding and the build-arch target, again

2006-01-23 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Wouter Verhelst [Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:08:00 +0100]: > And I would strongly suggest you to consider Simon Richter's proposal, > which sounds a lot cleaner to me: if you have build-depends-indep in > your debian/control file, you must also implement build-arch and/or > build-indep. > Additionally,

Re: Autobuilding and the build-arch target, again

2006-01-23 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 11:08:00PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > And I would strongly suggest you to consider Simon Richter's proposal, > which sounds a lot cleaner to me: if you have build-depends-indep in > your debian/control file, you must also implement build-arch and/or > build-indep. > >

Re: Autobuilding and the build-arch target, again

2006-01-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 02:17:36PM -0600, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 07:45:10PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > The difference between the two is that -q checks whether a target is > > uptodate and return an appropriate exit code, while -p prints out the > > data base (i.e. the

Re: Autobuilding and the build-arch target, again

2006-01-23 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 07:45:10PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 07:31:08PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 06:59:55PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 06:36:40PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > > > > To summarize the proposal

Re: Autobuilding and the build-arch target, again

2006-01-23 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 06:45:07PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > There have been various proposals on that matter, and it always boils > down to the same chicken-and-egg problem: > > - policy documents existing practice, which is to invoke "build". > - the existing practice cannot be changed be

Autobuilding and the build-arch target, again

2006-01-23 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, apologies for not crossposting to -policy. Simon --- Begin Message --- Hi, while I must admit that I was not at the latest IRC meeting where this topic came up, I am now bitten by this problem. I maintain a bunch of kernel modules that can be either patched onto a kernel tree or bui