On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 11:23:43AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Before going farther, I strongly recommends you read the
> bug log for #218893.
Good to see that this has been discussed before.
IMHO the sanest thing would be to make build-{arch,indep} goals
mandatory. It would make build-arch t
* Kari Pahula [Wed, 04 Jan 2006 11:37:46 +0200]:
> The reason why I got to think about this policy change was because I
> noticed that every arch's buildd was calling my build-indep and having
> doxygen generate 30 MBs of docs. I was suggested on IRC to either
> generate the docs in binary-indep
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:44:21AM +0200, Kari Pahula wrote:
> But, since it's not a requirement for debian/rules build-{arch,indep}
> to return an error when the targets are missing, tools such as
> dpkg-buildpackage have no choice but to always call debian-rules build
> even when building arch de
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 01:56:13PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I just don't know how this sort of change fits into the policy process.
How about this: change the policy to state that build-arch and
build-indep should be present, make it a lintian warning if they're
missing and defer any decision
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:30:04AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > But all of the above are just implementation details. The important
> > change would be to make it a requirement for build-{arch,indep} to be
> > present.
>
> The difficulty with this so
Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:30:04AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> The difficulty with this sort of change is that it requires changing
>> every Debian package, or near to. I'm going to have the same problem
>> with
> As far as changes go, this one can be
Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But all of the above are just implementation details. The important
> change would be to make it a requirement for build-{arch,indep} to be
> present.
The difficulty with this sort of change is that it requires changing every
Debian package, or near to.
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 02:34:45PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Kari Pahula writes ("Bug#345619: debian-policy: 4.8. binary-{arch, indep}
> should fail with error code 2 -> must"):
> > Debian policy 4.8. states:
> > If one or both of the targets `build-arch' an
Kari Pahula writes ("Bug#345619: debian-policy: 4.8. binary-{arch, indep}
should fail with error code 2 -> must"):
> Debian policy 4.8. states:
> If one or both of the targets `build-arch' and `build-indep' are
> not provided, then invoking `debian/rules' with
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.6.2.1
Severity: wishlist
Debian policy 4.8. states:
If one or both of the targets `build-arch' and `build-indep' are
not provided, then invoking `debian/rules' with one of the
not-provided targets as arguments should produce a exit status
code of 2.
I'm proposing
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