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Bug#345619: marked as done (build-arch and build-indep targets should be required)



Your message dated Wed, 19 Sep 2012 06:32:10 +0000
with message-id <E1TEDpS-0002tq-75@franck.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#374029: fixed in debian-policy 3.9.4.0
has caused the Debian Bug report #374029,
regarding build-arch and build-indep targets should be required
to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.6.2.1
Severity: wishlist

Debian policy 4.8. states:
If one or both of the targets `build-arch' and `build-indep' are
not provided, then invoking `debian/rules' with one of the
not-provided targets as arguments should produce a exit status
code of 2.

I'm proposing that this would be changed to "must produce".
debian/rules binary-* has the bits requiring root privileges and
build-* has the steps that can be done without.  As such, debian/rules
build-* is often called explicitly before $rootcommand debian/rules
binary-*.

But, since it's not a requirement for debian/rules build-{arch,indep}
to return an error when the targets are missing, tools such as
dpkg-buildpackage have no choice but to always call debian-rules build
even when building arch dependent packages.

If it was required that the missing rules returned an exit status,
dpkg-buildpackage could try debian/rules build-arch first and then
debian/rules build if that failed.

An alternative would be to require that build-{arch,indep} are always
present and both depending on build target, just like already done
with binary-* targets.  But that would require larger changes.

As they are now, build-{arch,indep} targets are less useful than what
they could be.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

-- no debconf information


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Source: debian-policy
Source-Version: 3.9.4.0

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debian-policy, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 374029@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (supplier of updated debian-policy package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
Source: debian-policy
Binary: debian-policy
Architecture: source all
Version: 3.9.4.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Policy List <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Description: 
 debian-policy - Debian Policy Manual and related documents
Closes: 374029 571776 591791 641153 654958 661816 661933 663918 670429 676561
Changes: 
 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
     implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385.  Wording
     review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
     (Closes: #374029)
   * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
     Patch from Charles Plessy.  (Closes: #670429)
   * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
     Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
     Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
     Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
     Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
     Closes: #661933
   * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
     Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
     Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
     Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
     Closes: #663918
   * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
     Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
     Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
     Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
     Closes: #641153
   * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
     Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
     Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
     Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
     Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
     Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
     Closes: #654958
   * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
     Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
     Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
     Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
     Closes: #676561
   * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
     Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
     Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
     Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
     Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
     Closes: #571776
   * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
     Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
     Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
     Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
     Closes: #591791
   * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
     Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
     Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
     Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
     Closes: #661816
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