Bug#218893: Proposal: debian/rules.version file [Fix for the build-arch problem]

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:01:13AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:59:24AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > 3.1) Provide an easy and reliable way to tell if the optional targets 
> > are implemented.
> 
> And once that's there, clarify Policy to say what dpkg-buildpackage et al
> will do: if optional targets are missing, do the old thing. If the optional
> targets are there, do the new thing instead.

No, can't do that!  There is no way to test for the presence of
optional targets!  (That's why this whole proposal was suggested.)

So it would be something like:

rules-version=0
  required targets: build, binary-arch, binary-indep, binary, clean

rules-version=1
  additional required targets: build-arch, build-indep

rules-version=2
  additional required targets: ...

etc.

   Julian

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