Re: Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?
Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 11:11:04PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
>> One of the issue is that tools like sbuild and pbuilder which want to
>> take advantage of the Build-Depends-Indep split needs to know whether
>> dpkg-buildpackage will call debian/rules build or build-arch.
>
> It needs to know no such thing. It just needs to know that if it runs
> "dpkg-buildpackage -b", only .debs will be generated, and if it runs
> "dpkg-buildpackage -B", all debs apart from the _all.debs will be
> generated. How exactly this happens is of no concern to sbuild.
It does when "Build-Depends" is used as specified in policy and not
like it is (brokenly) used now:
Policy 7.6:
| Build-Depends, Build-Conflicts
|
| The Build-Depends and Build-Conflicts fields must be satisfied
| when any of the following targets is invoked: build, clean,
| binary, binary-arch, build-arch, build-indep and binary-indep.
|
| Build-Depends-Indep, Build-Conflicts-Indep
|
| The Build-Depends-Indep and Build-Conflicts-Indep fields must be
| satisfied when any of the following targets is invoked: build,
| build-indep, binary and binary-indep.
That means that is -b is used or if the package does NOT support
build-arch then sbuild must install Build-Depends-Indep as well.
If build-arch remains optional and policy for Build-Depends remains
unchanged then sbuild must now. Making build-arch required or changing
the meaning of Build-Depends to the broken use we have now resolves
this. I favor making build-arch required.
MfG
Goswin
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