Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2012-03-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 01:33:05PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Hearing no objections, I call for a TC vote on the following ballot: A. dpkg-buildpackage, when doing a binary-only build (-B), should probe the package with make -qn to see if the build-arch target appears to be

Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2012-03-21 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [120320 21:48]: Hearing no objections, I call for a TC vote on the following ballot: A. dpkg-buildpackage, when doing a binary-only build (-B), should probe the package with make -qn to see if the build-arch target appears to be implemented. If so, it

Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2012-03-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Hearing no objections, I call for a TC vote on the following ballot: A. dpkg-buildpackage, when doing a binary-only build (-B), should probe the package with make -qn to see if the build-arch target appears to be implemented. If so, it should use debian/rules build-arch to build the

Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2012-03-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: A. dpkg-buildpackage, when doing a binary-only build (-B), should probe the package with make -qn to see if the build-arch target appears to be implemented. If so, it should use debian/rules build-arch to build the package instead of debian/rules

Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2012-03-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Russ Allbery wrote: Hearing no objections, I call for a TC vote on the following ballot: A. dpkg-buildpackage, when doing a binary-only build (-B), should probe the package with make -qn to see if the build-arch target appears to be implemented. If so, it should

Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2012-03-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes (Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch): Hearing no objections, I call for a TC vote on the following ballot: A. dpkg-buildpackage, when doing a binary-only build (-B), should probe the package with make -qn to see if the

Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2012-03-20 Thread Bdale Garbee
#part sign=pgpmime On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:33:05 -0700, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Hearing no objections, I call for a TC vote on the following ballot: I vote AB. Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2012-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
I believe that the discussion of this has reached a conclusion and the dpkg maintainers are moving forward with an implementation. At this point, it seems like the right thing for the Technical Committee to do is to affirm that we agree with the approach arrived at. I propose the following

Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for, supporting build-arch

2011-10-30 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, I have a 6th (?) proposal. Lintian recently got checks for finding packages without build-arch and build-indep targets. Currently it finds some 5600 packages and with the current rate it will take nearly 2 years to fix all of them. As pointed out earlier, only packages building both

Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for, supporting build-arch

2011-10-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net writes: As pointed out earlier, only packages building both arch:all and non-arch:all packages benefit from this. With this in mind, we can trivially create a new lintian tag that finds source packages building arch:all + non-arch:all packages without

Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011, Steve Langasek wrote: This actually reads to me the same as option 1. What distinction are you meaning to draw here? It's not very direct use of build-arch if we're checking 'make -qn' first. The only other differences I see here are issuing a warning, and explicitly

Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 09:41:18AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Mon, 06 Jun 2011, Steve Langasek wrote: If this were to be put to a vote today, I would propose the following ballot options: 1) Implement support for calling 'debian/rules build-arch' in place of 'debian/rules

Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
(Bcc to debian-dpkg for info) On Mon, 06 Jun 2011, Steve Langasek wrote: If this were to be put to a vote today, I would propose the following ballot options: 1) Implement support for calling 'debian/rules build-arch' in place of 'debian/rules build' by checking for the presence of the

Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 06 Jun 2011, Steve Langasek wrote: 3) Implement support for calling 'debian/rules build-arch' in place of 'debian/rules build' if a Build-Options field is set in debian/control of the source package specifying that this target is supported.[3] FYI with the recent

Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011, Steve Langasek wrote: 1) Implement support for calling 'debian/rules build-arch' in place of 'debian/rules build' by checking for the presence of the target using 'make -qn'. From Lucas's test in 2007,[2] Of those 1823 packages, 31 packages failed to build. Logs

Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 06/06/11 at 13:35 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: Happens; do you have any recollection of what the failures were from? [Just trying to make sure that they were failures which were fixable, and not some kind of unforeseen systematic problem.] No,