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Re: Bug#216492: FTBFS (unstable/all) missing build-dep



Chris Cheney <ccheney@cheney.cx> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:31:22PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Chris Cheney wrote:
>> 
>> > What needs to happen to get this into policy?
>> 
>> Nothing.  It is not possible to support this.  I attempted to in a
>> dpkg upload recently.  It broke completely.  I had to back it out.

> I don't understand your response, why would it not be possible to
> deprecate build and require use of build-arch/build-indep? With a
> possible transition of dpkg-buildpackage calling build-arch and falling
> back to build if it fails it could even have a clean(?) transition...

Iirc because it is not possible to reliably detect "dpkg-buildpackage
calling build-arch fails because the build-arch is not supported by
debian/rules". You don't want to run "debian/rules build" if
"debian/rules build-arch" failed because of regular build-error.

dpkg (1.10.15) unstable; urgency=low
[...]
  * Back out debian/rules build-arch detection.  It is *not* possible *at
    all* to detect available targets in a rules file.  Period.

 -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Fri, 19 Sep 2003 20:02:19 -0500

Bill Allombert's second suggestion (only on -policy) - introducing
debian/rules.version - would solve this issue.
            cu andreas
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