Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for, supporting build-arch
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
> As pointed out earlier, only packages building both arch:all and
> non-arch:all packages benefit from this. With this in mind, we can
> "trivially" create a new lintian tag that finds source packages building
> arch:all + non-arch:all packages without build-{arch,indep} targets.
> My proposal is, implement the above mentioned lintian tag and make a
> release goal focusing on fixing all packages emitting this tag.
> Basically this is a weaker version of (4) and we can start on it now
> without hardly any consequences.
> Should a better solution be chosen before we are done with fixing
> these packages, we can trivially cancel the release goal and remove the
> lintian tag. Particularly, we are not left with a lot of RC buggy
> packages nor will we have a new field that suddenly became redundant
> etc.
I certainly don't see any drawbacks to doing this independent of whatever
else is going on. It won't hurt, and it could very well make any
long-term solution to the problem easier.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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