On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 01:33:05PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Hearing no objections, I call for a TC vote on the following ballot: > > A. dpkg-buildpackage, when doing a binary-only build (-B), should probe > the package with "make -qn" to see if the build-arch target appears to > be implemented. If so, it should use "debian/rules build-arch" to > build the package instead of "debian/rules build". If it detects via > "make -qn" that the target is missing, it should output a warning > asking the packager to implement the required targets, and then fall > back to using "debian/rules build". > > The fallback to "debian/rules build" and the "make -qn" auto-detection > are temporary to ease the transition but should be dropped at some > point (wheezy+1, or wheezy+2). > > Debian Policy should be updated to make build-arch and build-indep > mandatory targets. > > B. Further discussion Since this is essentially supporting what the current dpkg maintainers appear to have decided to do anyway, and I don't think further discussion will reveal much more, I vote AB (though this may be too late). -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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