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

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2011-11-16 11:14, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

Hi,

Beyond the existing debian-rules-missing-recommended-target, I did write
the patch in #647227.

~Niels