Bug#572750: ocaml: please allow to build arch=all packages without compiling all of ocaml

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

Ralf Treinen a écrit :
> Calling dpkg-buildpackage -A seems to compile everything, even-though it
> only produces the arch-independent packages ocaml-mode and ocaml-source.
> It would be nice to factor the build and install targets into -arch and
> -indep targets. That would allow to build arch=all packages much more
> quickly.

Isn't it the case for almost all packages? Is it a common practice to
handle this option?

I'd rather rewrite the rules file using dh with overrides, and use
dh_listpackages to decide what to compile. I am planning to do this (but
I don't consider it as urgent).

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Stéphane