Bug#611926: eglibc compiles extremely huge binary-indep parts on buildds

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

severity 611926 wishlist
thanks

On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 08:42:32PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Source: eglibc
> Version: 2.11.2-11
> 
> Hi,
> 
> when building eglibc with --debbuildopts -B --binary-arch, after taking
> a day or so for locales-all ☺ it still creates a source archive in
> build-tree/eglibc-2.11.2.tar.xz which I think is for the eglibc-source
> arch:all deb. This creates unnecessary burden on all buildds, especially
> the slower architectures (think security buildds, too).
> 
> Please separate the build-arch and build-indep parts.

We are going to separate the build-arch and build-indep for 2.13, but I
don't think it will change anything, given dpkg-buildpackage call the
build target anyway.
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