Hi,
I have a 6th (?) proposal.
Lintian recently got checks for finding packages without build-arch and
build-indep targets. Currently it finds some 5600 packages and with the
current rate it will take nearly 2 years to fix all of them.
As pointed out earlier, only packages building both arch:all and
non-arch:all packages benefit from this. With this in mind, we can
"trivially" create a new lintian tag that finds source packages building
arch:all + non-arch:all packages without build-{arch,indep} targets.
My proposal is, implement the above mentioned lintian tag and make a
release goal focusing on fixing all packages emitting this tag.
Basically this is a weaker version of (4) and we can start on it now
without hardly any consequences.
Should a better solution be chosen before we are done with fixing
these packages, we can trivially cancel the release goal and remove the
lintian tag. Particularly, we are not left with a lot of RC buggy
packages nor will we have a new field that suddenly became redundant etc.
~Niels
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