Re: is m68k really ready for testing?

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 08:08:35PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 08:38:03PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > >  It has been suggested that you split off your documentation to an
> > >  architecture-independent package. 
> > 
> > Would it really do anything ? Unless you speak of a new source package,
> > as far as I know the m68k autobuilder will try build all the packages,
> > not only the arch-indep.
> 
> The autobuilders call 'debian/rules binary-arch', which does not build
> architecture-independent packages (at least, it's a bug in the given
> debian/rules if it does).

Are you sure ?

   File `log' in pari_2.1.4-2_m68k (Nov 7      pari >> 2.1.4-2 >> Nov 7 14:07 
   14:07)                                                              >> log 

 Automatic build of pari_2.1.4-2 on arrakis by sbuild/m68k 1.168
 Build started at 20021107-1543
 ******************************************************************************
 dpkg-source: extracting pari in pari-2.1.4
 ...
  /usr/bin/sudo debian/rules clean
 ...
  debian/rules build
 ...
  /usr/bin/sudo debian/rules binary-arch

Oh yes you are correct.

The problem is that doing 'debian/rules build' will try build the
documentation and fail. Of course, we can build the documentation in the
binary-indep target instead, but it is not good since it can be run as
root, and I would really consider it a kludge.  

I understand that build-indep and build-arch have been added to policy
for that purpose but that sbuild do not know about them. Is there plan
to fix that, at least for the sake of m68k ?

Cheers,
Bill.