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Bug#148932: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage -B should try build-arch target



Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.10.9
Followup-For: Bug #148932

Wichert wrote:
> Previously Duncan Findlay wrote:
> > Firstly, a test to see if something is a makefile can be as simple as
> > reading the first line of the file -- does it contain #!/usr/bin/make
> > -f (as policy dictates in 5.2)
> 
> Wrong. Debian policy is just that, Debian policy. dpkg does not demand
> that debian/rules is a makefile and will not rely on make specific
> behaviour.

So make this patch Debian specific. You are both the upstream dpkg
maintainer and the Debian maintainer.

The upstream maintainer has a valid reason not to include this patch
but has the Debian maintainer? 

You can add the patch in the debian directory and apply it at
build-time.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux seventeen 2.4.20 #1 Wed Mar 5 16:16:52 CET 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=french, LC_CTYPE=french

Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on:
ii  binutils                2.13.90.0.18-1.3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  cpio                    2.5-1            GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  make                    3.80-1           The GNU version of the "make" util
ii  patch                   2.5.4-11         Apply a diff file to an original
ii  perl [perl5]            5.8.0-17         Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules            5.8.0-17         Core Perl modules.

-- no debconf information



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