Re: Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

[Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>]

* Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) [070703 20:04]:
> Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> > Steve Langasek writes ("Re: Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?"):
> >> Attached is a patch to dpkg which implements a check for a 'build-arch'
> >> target using 'make -f debian/rules -qn build-arch'.
> 
> > Why are we so resistant to the new debian/control field ?  That
> > doesn't require any of this messing about with make.
> 
> Agreed.  If I had my way, we'd add a Homepage debian/control field as
> well; instead we have an ugly workaround hack due to similar resistance.

I think we can still fix this mess.


Cheers,
Andi
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