Re: Bug#545081: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage -B should UNCONDITIONALLY invoke debian/rules build-arch
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Raphael Hertzog<hertzog@debian.org> wrote:
> forcemerge 229357 545081
> thanks
>
> On Fri, 04 Sep 2009, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> As is well known, dpkg-buildpackage -B does not know whether it can
>
> If you knew well, you would have known that this bug already exists...
> it's #229357 and you're not helping us by opening a new bug report.
>
> dpkg-dev has a few dozen of open bugs, you could have looked at them
> before filing this one.
I disagree that this is 229357. That bug is about Build-Options.
This is a new proposal to *unconditionally* use build-arch in
dpkg-buildpackage -B. I'm not going to play control ping-pong, but
please reconsider.
> No, that's not the way we handle things in Debian. The most likely
> solution is that we're going to add a flag that maintainers can use to
> say that they support build-arch / build-indep.
Normally I would agree with you, but there has been no visible forward
motion on any such flag since 2007. build-arch has been part of
policy since 200*1*. I think that the advantages of decoupling the
long-stalled and independently desirable build-arch change from the
going-nowhere Build-Options plans well outweigh the disadvantages of
an abrupt, world-breaking transition.
zw
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