Hi, I don't quite understand the point of having the 'build' target be mandatory. My problem with it is precisely what policy says:
> For some packages, notably ones where the same source tree is > compiled in different ways to produce two binary packages, the > `build' target does not make much sense. It seems to me that the 'build' target is certainly useful for many packages. But that's not a reason to make it required. Andrew Suffield noted on irc that 'build' was handy before we had fakeroot, but again that's 1) addressed and 2) still not a reason to have it be required. The reason I bring this up is I am designing a new Debian build system, and it's hard for me to know what to do with it exactly. I can have users explicitly specify, but why force them to do that if it's not useful? So, I'd like to make a policy proposal to change build to an optional target, much like build-arch and build-indep already are. I know that sbuild will need to be changed; are there any other issues?
