Bug#628515: recommending verbose build logs
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.
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