On 2012-02-08 13:23, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2012-01-25 23:18, Roger Leigh wrote: >[...] >> Once build-arch and build-indep are supported by dpkg-buildpackage, >> hopefully in the next week, and/or are required by Policy, please >> could you apply the attached patch to move build-arch and build-indep >> from recommended to required? >> >
Things have changed a bit since we talked about this last year. > dpkg/experimental now supports build-arch/build-indep with the "make > -qn" fallback[1]. The tech-ctte's multi-arch ruling[2] suggests we may > see this change in sid in 14 days time (unless that change is reverted > etc.). In sid and Wheezy by now. > That being said, I am not sure this is sufficient to bump these > targets to "required". I am not aware of anything on the Policy front > or the tech-ctte (build-arch) front to ratify the recommended -> > required change. > Ratified in Policy 3.9.4, but as mentioned in [1] it is "Not for Wheezy". > I am hesistant because bumping them has a side-effect of making them > "fatal auto-rejects". Despite the steady drop in missing targets[3] > there are still 4000-4500 packages that "overnight" would be auto-reject > candidates. > This number is now about 3700, which is still a bit much. In the interest of not getting a lot of mail from people aggrevated by their package being auto-rejected, I still feel the tags should remain split for now (until that number drops a bit more and Wheezy has been released). I am open to bumping the severity of the recommended-target tag (possibly including a rename) to make the tag more visible and hopefully increasing the adoption rate of this tag (well, the post-freeze adoption rate). >> I kept the debian-rules-missing-recommended-target check and >> description in case it's of potential use in the future, but >> otherwise these could also be removed. >> >> >> Thanks, >> Roger >> >> [...] > > > ~Niels > > [...] > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/09/msg00006.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org