Bug#628515: recommending verbose build logs

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 08:38:07AM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Matthias Klose wrote:
> 
> > This issue is now again silent for eight months.  Is there anything missing, or
> > any other reason why the issue doesn't see any progress?
> 
> I believe there is a consensus that packages should produce verbose
> build logs by default and can optionally produce terse logs with
> DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=terse and this is just waiting on someone to propose
> wording in policy to that effect.
> 
> A patch against git://git.debian.org/dbnpolicy/policy.git is best, but
> rough proposed wording ("in section x, add: ...") is also fine.

A wiki page documenting how verbose build logs can be produced with the common 
build systems would be helpful. This would also help defining what 'verbose' means.

Cheers,
Bill.