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Re: dpkg-buildpackage -A vs make -f ./debian/rules build-indep



On Mon, 04 Apr 2011, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
>   I am trying to understand why  dpkg-buildpackage -A is not simply
> calling make -f ./debian/rules build-indep. I tried turning
> DH_VERBOSE=1 but I do not see which rules imply runing the build-arch
> while I specifically tell dpkg-buildpackage to only run build-indep.

This is a long standing limitation of both the policy and
dpkg-buildpackage. See #229357 for instance and also some report against
debian-policy.

Cheers,
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