On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 05:27:40PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Roger Leigh wrote: > > At this point, we have one working and well tested solution. > > Which one are you referring to ?
I'm referring to using "make -qn" (with or without the additional presence of the Build-Options field). Either would do the job, and Build-Options would cater for packages where the autodetection breaks the build. Given the tiny number of packages affected, this isn't a big deal IMO. > > Is there any point in waiting on the TC at this point given that it's > > really the only sensible choice (as in, it's been tested on the whole > > archive and we know its impact is very low, and we don't have any > > alternative patches at this point which offer a better solution). > > IIRC, the solution that you're referring to is one that Guillem was not > really pleased with. So that makes a reason for a TC ruling. OK. Guillem (CC'd), are there any existing viable alternatives to "make -qn" (with or without Build-Options) which you are happy with? Note that the purpose of this change is not a "perfect" long-term solution, but a "good enough" solution which will permit the adoption of build-arch and build-indep without a flag day which would break everything. It can be removed once wheezy is released, following which the targets can be made mandatory. Of course, if a better method of target autodetection is found in the interim, we can adopt that instead. This would strictly be to enable the transition. As I see it, we've been waiting for such a perfect solution for over eight years, and because of that, it's never happened. A less-than- perfect solution would have allowed this to be done years ago. We need it working for wheezy, and in the absence of a better solution having your consent to go with the "make -qn" solution would at least allow some progress to be made. It would only need to be there until the release of wheezy. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
