Hi, Quoting Paul Wise (2015-04-12 05:14:22) > On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 11:44 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > What is mandatory is being able to rebuild everything from source with > > tools available in Debian (main) > > Unfortunately we don't have any consistent way to manually or > automatically verify that we can do this. > > I expect we would need Build-Depends-Extra and debian/rules distclean to make > that happen. Thoughts? I guess instead of a new field you could use build profiles to mark some build dependencies as only being needed for running certain targets in debian/rules. Then a environment variable like DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=distclean could be used to instruct dpkg-buildpackage to set the right build profile options (leading to more build dependencies) and call the right targets in debian/rules. Going down that road makes me think about more things: - should dpkg-buildpackage set a build profile in certain circumstances (a certain DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS like nocheck or nodoc being set or host-arch != build-arch) or should the user invoking dpkg-buildpackage in a certain way set the build profiles they want? - could the Build-Depends-Indep and Build-Depends-Arch fields replaced by build profiles in the long term in a similar manner? cheers, josch
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