Re: draft ballot: please rule on how to implement debian/rules build-arch

[Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 08:22:22AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > >     This fallback is a temporary measure until all packages have been
> > >     converted to properly support the build-arch and build-indep targets.
> Updated patch attached.
> +        warning(_g("%s must be updated to support the 'build-arch' and " .
> +                   "'build-indep' targets (at least '%s' seems to be " .
> +                   "missing)"), "@debian_rules", $buildtarget);

I was wondering if we could make the emphasis here stronger to
encourage adoption in a timely manner.  Could we maybe add an
0x07 (\a) in the string to make it beep, and add a sleep 15
afterward to ensure that the warning is overly obtrusive?
(Slightly annoying, I know, which is the intention!)

I also wonder, once the patch is in place, how aggressively we
could push adoption in unstable.  With sufficient motivation and
aggressive NMUs, could we get this done for wheezy and release
with the autodetection removed?  i.e. migrate the majority of
packages, and then have the "flag day" and fix all remaining
packages with NMUs?


Regards,
Roger

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