Re: flow of things rules/debhelper (still confused)

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 04:45:44PM +0200, Tanguy Ortolo wrote:
> Le jeudi 08 avril 2010, Osamu Aoki a écrit :
> > I do not know active use of binary-indep by itself.  Anyone knows?
> > (I know some makefile has binary: binary-indep binary-arch.)
> 
> I do not know what you mean by “active use”, 

I mean that active use of binary-indep by itself alone for building
packages for Debian archive.  I only see it used when we build both
binary-indep and binary-arch packages.  buildd only uses binary-arch =
dpkg-buildpackage -B.

> but I do have a package
> which debian/rules contains a featured binary-indep: and an empty
> binary-arch:. This is the dokuwiki package, a PHP-interpreted website
> content manager.

Yes we do.

> I considered switching to the new managed rules syntax, but when I
> discovered that it would have the effect of losing the information
> that most of the work is arch-independent, I decided to keep my old
> rules.

This is nothing related to new dh syntax.. old dh_* listings. 

Osamu