Bug#657390: lintian: Please make build-arch and build-indep required targets
On 2012-01-25 23:18, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.4
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
> Hi,
>
Hi,
> Once build-arch and build-indep are supported by dpkg-buildpackage,
> hopefully in the next week, and/or are required by Policy, please
> could you apply the attached patch to move build-arch and build-indep
> from recommended to required?
>
dpkg/experimental now supports build-arch/build-indep with the "make
-qn" fallback[1]. The tech-ctte's multi-arch ruling[2] suggests we may
see this change in sid in 14 days time (unless that change is reverted
etc.).
That being said, I am not sure this is sufficient to bump these
targets to "required". I am not aware of anything on the Policy front
or the tech-ctte (build-arch) front to ratify the recommended ->
required change.
I am hesistant because bumping them has a side-effect of making them
"fatal auto-rejects". Despite the steady drop in missing targets[3]
there are still 4000-4500 packages that "overnight" would be auto-reject
candidates.
> I kept the debian-rules-missing-recommended-target check and
> description in case it's of potential use in the future, but
> otherwise these could also be removed.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Roger
>
> [...]
~Niels
[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dpkg/news/20120206T000222Z.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2012/02/msg00018.html
[3]
http://people.debian.org/~nthykier/rg-build-arch-target/affected-packages-graphs.png
Numbers are available on lintian.debian.org in
/srv/lintian.debian.org/history/tags/debian-rules-missing-recommended-target.dat
Note, both sources are slightly inflated due to lintian currently
processing "outdated" source packages. Some cut | uniq | wc -l magic on
the lintian.log should produce more accurate results, but it is unlikely
to drop the numbers below 4000 at the moment.
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