On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:44:21AM +0200, Kari Pahula wrote:
> 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.
Before going farther, I strongly recommends you read the
bug log for #218893.
Cheers,
Bill.
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