Hi, On 2015-08-24 22:06, Matthias Klose wrote: > [...] So what about identifying categories which should be fixed in any > case, and maybe which should have special rules for accelerated NMUs and such?
Personally, I find that proposal quite interesting. > Categories would include: > > - running dh-autoreconf during the build to accommodate new archs. > > - respecting dpkg-buildflags for current "security" settings, and > obsoleting the old manually coded -O0/-O2 for debug builds. > Both of these seems very reasonable to me. In fact, I could be convinced to help provide patches to maintainers that would be interested in switching to the dh-sequencer at the same time. > - respecting DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=<n>. While this doesn't > improve package quality, it will help to better use buildd resources. > almost every architecture now uses multi cores. It will help Debian > to faster process binNMUs / transitions at least for release archs. > Indeed - I have been pondering on making the next compat level in debhelper default to --parallel. > [...] > > So what about generalizing these categories into something which doesn't need > asking again for every single package to be applied? > > Matthias > Conceptually, I am positive about the idea. The problem will probably be what "categories" we can agree to. On the other hand, this can trivially become an Achilles heel in this proposal - though I sincerely hope I am wrong here. Thanks, ~Niels
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