Bug#218893: Kicking this back to life
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:05:28AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:15:14PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Hello Wouter,
> > This proposal is merely waiting for the dpkg
> > maintainers to make a decision on bug #229357 rather than shelved. Some
> > developers mentionned their willingness to second it.
> >
> > As for your proposal: at the time of the discussion, the dpkg maintainer
> > made it clear it was not an option.
>
> I disagree (I went through the bug's log before providing the patch); He
> made clear that the debian/rules.* stuff was not an option in his eyes,
The only negative comment from Adam Heath are about the lack of dpkg
patch, but such patch was duly provided. There is a negative comment
from Scott James Remnant but he was not part of the part of the initial
discussion (he became the dpkg maintainer 6 months after the discusion)
and did not get to the root of the matter.
> but I didn't see him mention that making build-{arch,indep} would not be
> what he wanted to happen.
I agree that this is not documented in the bug log (because it was not
actually proposed there), but doogie was quite vocal about it at the time
on IRC (to the point of /ignore-ing mrvn for merely suggestig the idea).
Anyway the opinion of the current dpkg maintainers is more important.
> > Since there are new dpkg maintainers, I asked them on Thu, 19 Jan 2006,
> > what was their opinion on the matter and whether they would accept my
> > proposal or yours. So far I did not get any answer.
> >
> > I consider such answer to be a precondition to any useful subsequent
> > discussion on this topic.
>
> Fair enough.
>
> I proposed this patch because I had not seen any action and therefore
> assumed nothing was happening anymore. If that's wrong, so much the
> better.
You are not exactly wrong: there is not a lot of evidence we will get
an answer from the new dpkg maintainers any time soon. Maybe you could
ping the bug #229357, you might have more success than I did.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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