Hi all,
According to my reading of debian-policy 4.8 and 7.6, this should be
correct:
debian/rules:
build: build-indep build-arch
build-indep:
build arch-indep stuff (like docs)
build-arch: configure
build some binaries
However the autobuilders use debian/rules build instead of debian/rules
binary-arch and do not install Build-Depends-Indep. For eg:
http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=mapserver&ver=4.8.1-1&arch=ia64&stamp=1140357449&file=log&as=raw
http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?&pkg=mapserver
So, I'm thinking of switching the build target to something like this:
# This is the correct, policy-compliant build target
#build: build-indep build-arch
# This is the incorrect, non-policy compliant build target
# it is necessary because the auto-builders use build, but don't install Build-Depends-Indep
build: build-arch
With a comment in debian/changelog like this:
* Make the build target no longer depend on build-indep. This is not
policy-compliant (see 7.6 and 4.8), but it is needed to work around
the fact that the autobuilders call debian/rules build (instead of
build-arch), but do not install Build-Depends-Indep packages.
build-indep is an indirect dependency of the binary and binary-indep
targets, so non-autobuilder builds will still work.
Is this the correct work-around for this problem? or should I put the
Build-Depends-Indep packages into Build-Depends and let the autobuilders
build the docs, but not make them into packages (seems like this is a
bad thing to do, since it increases build times and seems wasteful)?
--
bye,
pabs
http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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