Release goal proposal: Archive-wide build-arch and build-indep support
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Hi,
I would like to propose the goal of getting archive-wide support for
the optional debian/rules targets "build-arch" and "build-indep".
The intention is to finally solve issues like #619284 and the goal
is related to #629385.
According to Lintian, currently 5542 packages are missing at least
one of these optional targets. At the current rate these are fixed
it will take over 2 years to get them all done and unfortunately the
rate appears to be slowing dropping[1].
Jakub Wilk did an analysis earlier this year, which suggests we can
reduce the problem size considerably by looking only at source
packages that builds both "arch:all" and "non arch:all" binaries[2].
I have filed #647227 against Lintian asking for a separate tag to
identify these packages.
To keep it attainable, the goal for Wheezy is to fix the subset of
packages that would need to differentiate "build" and
"build-arch"/"build-indep". Once we have the data available, we
will put up a dd-list for the reduced set.
If you would like to help:
* Fix you(r team)'s packages (see [3])
* Sign up as an volunteer.
- There are up 126 QA uploads waiting to be done. :)
- There will probably also be some NMUs.
* If filing bugs for this, please use:
* User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
* Usertags: build-arch-target
The release goal wiki page is at [4] and the current advocates are
Jakub Wilk, Bernhard R. Link and myself.
Thanks for considering.
~Niels
[1] This data is available on lintian.d.o as:
/srv/lintian.debian.org/history/tags/debian-rules-missing-recommended-target.dat
format is:
<timestamp> <tags> <overrides> <packages>
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2011/06/msg00018.html
[3] This dd-list is the full set of packages (the reduced set is not
available at the moment).
http://people.debian.org/~nthykier/rg-build-arch-target/dd-list
[4] https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/BuildArchTarget
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