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



On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:34:23PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:04:27AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > It's newer and shinier, so it must be better, right?
> > 
> > If we're adding optional features, doing so in a way that doesn't
> > confuse people into believing that all packages need to use them would
> > definitely be a good thing, I think.
> 
> I agree that this may become a problem. Can you suggest a better way?
> Maybe list tags within the new field rather than using a number?

That would be a solution. Just find a tag that mean that
build-arch and build-indep are implemented, but shorter. Maybe
split_build.

And add
Build-Options: split_build
in debian/control.

Build-Options being a comma-separated lists of implemented options.

Though I start to wonder whether the original rules.targets proposal was
not cleaner.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

Imagine a large red swirl here. 



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