On 2011-11-10 08:20, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi all, > Hi
> I have been trying to split indep operations from the rest on the > activiz.net package, see: > > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med/trunk/packages/activiz.net/trunk/debian/rules?view=markup > > However the -indep rules are still being called on the buildd machine: > > Eg: > > http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=activiz.net&arch=s390x&ver=5.6.1-2&stamp=1320869304 > > [...] > > Am I missing something here ? > > Thanks This is one of the real issue behind the optional build-arch/build-indep targets; since they are optional dpkg-buildpackage/buildds do not use them. Therefore, you cannot rely on them as a maintainer (yet). The purpose of adding the build-arch/build-indep targets is to reduce the number of packages that "would be instantly RC-buggy if build-arch and build-indep became mandatory targets"[0]. This should remove one of the major blockers for fixing this (in my view) ridiculus behaviour where the "Build-Depends-Indep" field is completely useless. In your case, it seems to build just fine anyway... If the build-indep does not require huge build-depends[1] or a lot of resources (i.e. memory or build-time)[2], I would personally just merge Build-Depends-Indep into Build-Depends and ignore it for now. The alternative is to do various hoops to conditionally skip build-indep based on installed packages or delay it until binary-arch vs binary/binary-indep is called (in which case you know whether or not to build it). If you want to see an example, I have done the former in libsysactivity. But as may realize, it is a suboptimal trade-off (delays failure on a indep build with missing B-D + plus error message is more or less a "red-herring") ~Niels [0] See the proposed "build-arch target" release goal for more information. :) https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/BuildArchTarget [1] For reference graphivz + doxygen appears to be 31.4 MB in my clean amd64 chroot (possibly including packages that would have been pulled anyway by other Build-Depends). [2] You may want to check the buildd logs for some of the slower archs when you make this decision. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
