On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Hearing no objections, I call for a TC vote on the following ballot:
> 
> A. dpkg-buildpackage, when doing a binary-only build (-B), should probe
>    the package with "make -qn" to see if the build-arch target appears to
>    be implemented.  If so, it should use "debian/rules build-arch" to
>    build the package instead of "debian/rules build".  If it detects via
>    "make -qn" that the target is missing, it should output a warning
>    asking the packager to implement the required targets, and then fall
>    back to using "debian/rules build".
> 
>    The fallback to "debian/rules build" and the "make -qn" auto-detection
>    are temporary to ease the transition but should be dropped at some
>    point (wheezy+1, or wheezy+2).
> 
>    Debian Policy should be updated to make build-arch and build-indep
>    mandatory targets.
> 
> B. Further discussion

I vote AB.


Don Armstrong

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Dreaming of their heroes
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 -- Vern Rutsala "Poetry in Motion" p77

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