Re: Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 06/06/11 at 10:29 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > On Mon, 06 Jun 2011, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > 1) Implement support for calling 'debian/rules build-arch' in place
> > > of 'debian/rules build' by checking for the presence of the
> > > target using 'make -qn'.
> >
> > From Lucas's test in 2007,[2] "Of those 1823 packages, 31 packages failed
> > to build. Logs can be found on
> > http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2007/07/04/ "
> >
> > Since the logs aren't there anymore, does anyone know what type of
> > failures were seen with make -qn?
>
> I don't have the data anymore, sorry.
Happens; do you have any recollection of what the failures were from?
[Just trying to make sure that they were failures which were fixable,
and not some kind of unforseen systematic problem.]
Don Armstrong
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