Re: Release goal proposal: Archive-wide build-arch and build-indep support

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:

> On 2011-11-05 21:22, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I would like to propose the goal of getting archive-wide support for
>> the optional debian/rules targets "build-arch" and "build-indep".
>> The intention is to finally solve issues like #619284 and the goal
>> is related to #629385.
>> 
>> [...]
>>
>> To keep it attainable, the goal for Wheezy is to fix the subset of
>> packages that would need to differentiate "build" and
>> "build-arch"/"build-indep".  Once we have the data available, we
>> will put up a dd-list for the reduced set.
>> 
>> [...]
>
> The reduced set is available thanks to some UDD queries.  We are looking
> at ~500 packages (see attached dd-list if some of your packages are there).
>
> The data is also available from[1], where you can also see the queries I
> used to generate this set (see reduced-set.py).
>
>
> Thanks for considering,
> ~Niels
>
> [1] http://people.debian.org/~nthykier/rg-build-arch-target/

Have you considered (or already written) a lintian check for those
targets?

MfG
        Goswin