On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 12:25:37AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 12:18:53AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 02:41:11PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Bill Allombert <[email protected]> writes: > > > > On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 03:45:25PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > > > > > For the record (and for anyone following this bug), we should hold on > > > > > action on this until the TC decides the way forward for build-arch. > > > > > > > Note that I did not ask for second. > > > > However lintian does not appear to be exercising such restrain: > > > > > > The other advantage of Lintian warning on this is that it means we're now > > > collecting that data for the whole archive. > > > > Not my point. Maybe you missed the line > > > > N: These targets will be required by policy in the future, so should be > > N: added to prevent future breakage. > > > > which is basically assuming the outcome (and leads the reader to believe > > that > > a decision has been reached while the issue is still under discussion). > > As the author of the above, apologies if this was too presumptive. > > However, it was my understanding from the discussion that the > proposals being discussed here are basically about how best to > realise the goal of having build-arch and build-indep implemented; > I thought that the goal itself was relatively uncontroversial, but > the means of achieving it were still under discussion.
If you want that, create a policy proposal to that effect, CC debian-devel, foster a constructive discussion and get two seconds, so a real consensus can be reached. So far, about 3 developpers voiced an opinion. This is insufficient. I am all for implementing the build-arch/build-indep split properly (I implemented the initial dh-make template for build-arch/build-indep split which a large number of debian/rules is still based). However, asking source packages that build only one of arch-all/arch-indep to implement build-arch/build-indep is useless and a waste of effort. This will train developers to add build-arch: build build-indep: build to debian/rules without further consideration. Instead we should focus on the smaller number of packages that provide both arch-all/arch-indep and make sure build-arch actually only build the arch-all part and build-indep the arch-indep part. We could use that opportunuity to implement Build-Options: build-arch and proper Build-Depends/Build-Depends-Indep split. Then we would have achieved something. Just adding build-arch: build to all packages does not. Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110709222031.GE18196@yellowpig
