In <[🔎] 87y68p6tcx.fsf@frosties.localnet>, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> writes: >> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 04:40:57PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com> writes: >>> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 19:25, Ø£Øمد المØمودي <aelmahmoudy@sabily.org> wrote: >>> >> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 07:07:07PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> >>> And as discussed before policy disagrees with reality in this. >>> >> >>> >> Would you please elaborate ? >>> > >>> > Goswin likely refers to this thread: Buildd & binary-indep >>> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/09/msg00590.html >>> > Message-id: <20100924204433.GA4714@apache.rbscorp.ru> >>> >>> Buildds install only Build-Depends but not Build-Depends-Indep but still >>> call the "build" target. In reality the "build" target must work with >>> only Build-Depends installed contrary to what policy says. >> >> I do hope this mess can be sorted out after squeeze is released. >> Mandating build-arch and build-indep would be a good thing, IMHO. > >Don't count on it. This has been going on for years and years. > >The simple solution is to just declare the build-indep/arch targets >required (maybe going via SHOULD to MUST) and then have >dpkg-buildpackage just use them when sources have changed (or just use >them and break things). > >Unfortunately this would make a lot of packages instantly RC buggy so >people are afraid of doing that. And without mandating the targets and >making Build-Depends-Indep actually usefull there is no incentive for >maintainers to change the source. > >But hey, all the maintainer has to do is add 1, in words ONE, char to >debian/rules. Just change "build:" to "build%:" and dpkg-buildpackage >could use build-arch/indep targets instead of build. Aparently that is >too much to ask. I volunteer to make /this/ fix to any package that is unmaintained or whose maintainer is unresponsive, *if* Debian will change policy to /require/ build- arch/indep and make dpkg-buildpackage use them instead of build sometime after the Squeeze release and before the Wheezy freeze. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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