Re: Bug#629385: build-arch: statistics on packages that would be affected by a flag day

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:

> This message from Jakub Wilk on debian-policy provides some good information
> about the work we'd be facing if we went with a flag day for build-arch:
>
>   http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2011/06/msg00018.html

That opens up a new options:

6) Turn on direct use of 'debian/rules build-arch' on the autobuilders
   for all packages building arch and indep packages in unstable and
   experimental immediately, with no fallback if the target does not
   exist; requires a corresponding update to Policy and mass updates to
   fix packages that fail to build as a result.

That would make at most 667 packages instantly buggy, 4% of the archive.

MfG
        Goswin