On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 08:23:59PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 01:29:12PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In <[🔎] 20101120183255.GF12640@khazad-dum.debian.net>, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > > wrote: > > >On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > >> >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. > > > > > >It can be done, but it must be done in at least two steps: > > > > > >1. Make it SHOULD, start fixing packages. You don't have to wait for the > > > SHOULD to start fixing packages, either. > > > > I'm not willing to manually test random packages for this breakage. What's > > the best way to get an automated process to report on the PTS or BTS the > > existence of build-arch and build-indep? Could it simply be a lintian test? > > > > Also, I thought it was already a SHOULD. > > > > >2. When almost everything is fixed, make it MUST. Whatever doesn't get > > > fixed after that, gets axed from the next stable. > > > > My time was volunteered (in my last posting) *after* it becomes a MUST, but > > with some help I might be willing to put some time in as part of a DEP. > > Two suggestions: > >r 1) Use the lintian lab on lintian.debian.org > (/v/lintian.debian.org/laboratory) which contains all 15796 unpacked > source packages. Alternatively, download and unpack them all on your > own machine [] > > You can write a script to check for the presence of build-arch: > and/or build-indep: > Note: this won't pick out make pattern rules which don't have > (directly) those named rules, so you might want to check for build% > etc. There are other special cases such as included Makefiles when > packages use cdbs etc., so you will get false positives that need > manual review. > > Example: find . -type f -name rules | grep 'debian/rules$' | while read rule; do egrep -H '^(build(.*%)?|build-(arch|indep)):' "$rule"; done > gives you somewhere to start. Output at http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/build-rule-check.bz2 I haven't had time to analyse this, if someone else wants to, that would be cool. Done on lintian.debian.org using the following: #!/bin/sh cd /srv/lintian.debian.org/laboratory/source find . -type f -name rules | grep 'debfiles/rules$' | while read rule do egrep -H '^(build(.*%)?|build-(arch|indep)):' "$rule" done Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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