Bug#218893: Proposal: debian/rules.version file [Fix for the build-arch problem]
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:35:48PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > What about optional fields in the control file with default values:
> >
> > Build-Arch: build
> > Build-Indep: build
> >
> > (and therefore may be omitted), but that can be overridden in this way?:
> >
> > Build-Arch: build-arch
> > Build-Indep: build-indep
> >
> > only for packages which really need or benefit from them?
> >
> > (What I dislike is a "format version", mandatory conversion of all
> > packages to the new format in the long run, and all that).
>
> My proposal never called for that. In particular the rules.targets
> option does not have this potential flaw by not creating a sense
> that 'higher version is better'.
Ok, no problem then.
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