Niels Thykier <[email protected]> writes: > 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. I certainly don't see any drawbacks to doing this independent of whatever else is going on. It won't hurt, and it could very well make any long-term solution to the problem easier. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
