Bug#345619: debian-policy: 4.8. binary-{arch, indep} should fail with error code 2 -> must
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 01:56:13PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I just don't know how this sort of change fits into the policy process.
How about this: change the policy to state that build-arch and
build-indep should be present, make it a lintian warning if they're
missing and defer any decision to make it a requirement until they're
widely implemented.
Lintian warning reports for all packages are already readily
available. Checking those and that the packages' standards-version is
high enough to trigger this particular warning should give a decent
picture of how many packages are still missing the targets.
Besides, it's not like there's a need to have as a goal to have each
and every package in the archive to implenent build-{arch,indep}, if
any tools that use those targets will check the standards-version too.
Of course, if the standards-version of every package in the archive
ever gets high enough, that check can be dropped, too.
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