Hi, On Wed, 30 Apr 2014, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Of the 73 packages that failed, 10 were due to a known > incompatibility, which has been fixed. About 20 or so were due to > various issues i the package, unrelated to this report. However, 40 > packages failed to build due to the new make is not doing the expected > thing when called as: make -f debian/rules -qn build-arch
Why is this broken by the new make? Doesn't debhelper have a similar problem when trying to detect whether override_dh_foo targets are present? If not maybe the right thing to do is to fix our detection to work like the one used in debhelper... > The options, as I see it are: 4) Fix the code detecting target availability to work with the new make. > Ideally, we should just bite the bullet and demand that all > packages implement the build-arch and build-indep targets, and call > them without testing for them as needed. An experimental build of > dpkg-dev could be used to do a full archive rebuild to see how that > shakes out. Indeed but I fear the list will be much bigger than the few that you found out with the current situation. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Discover the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
