Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-19 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:19:47PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 01:04:00AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Hi Roger, On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 02:02:52AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 11:14:14AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Steve Langasek

Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: Hi Roger, On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 02:02:52AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: Because unstable was changing between the rebuilds, some of the failures are likely due to churn, including multiarch work, so a failure does not necessarily implicate the patch

Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-12 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 01:04:00AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 02:02:52AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: Because unstable was changing between the rebuilds, some of the failures are likely due to churn, including multiarch work, so a failure does not necessarily

Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-12 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:29:11 +0100, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: I am repeating the builds using a static mirror of unstable as of today. Thank you! Bdale pgp9IZOhNTgVz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 11:14:14AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Steve Langasek Hi, | 4) Turn on direct use of 'debian/rules build-arch' on the autobuilders for | all packages in unstable and experimental immediately, with no fallback |

Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-11 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Roger, On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 02:02:52AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 11:14:14AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Steve Langasek | 4) Turn on direct use of 'debian/rules build-arch' on the autobuilders for | all packages in unstable and experimental

Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-11 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net, 2011-06-11, 12:19: 7) Failed autodetection - autodetection failed to detect an existing build-arch target - unconditional used build-arch A complete list of packages is at the bottom; these are selected examples. Example: spring_0.82.7.1+dfsg1-3

Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-11 Thread Ian Jackson
(Sorry to just join this conversation; I was on holiday in Wales, which was excellent.) Raphael Hertzog writes (Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch): I was going to suggest that. The way I prepared the corresponding patch (the one you called

Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: (Sorry to just join this conversation; I was on holiday in Wales, which was excellent.) Raphael Hertzog writes: I was going to suggest that. The way I prepared the corresponding patch (the one you called auto-detection) already does that

Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-07 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steve Langasek Hi, | 4) Turn on direct use of 'debian/rules build-arch' on the autobuilders for | all packages in unstable and experimental immediately, with no fallback | if the target does not exist; requires a corresponding update to Policy | and mass updates to fix packages

Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-07 Thread Andreas Barth
* Tollef Fog Heen (tfh...@err.no) [110607 11:14]: ]] Steve Langasek Hi, | 4) Turn on direct use of 'debian/rules build-arch' on the autobuilders for | all packages in unstable and experimental immediately, with no fallback | if the target does not exist; requires a corresponding

Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: The Technical Committee has sufficient authority to address this question under any of ยง6.1.{1,2,4,5}. If you prefer, we could also ask for a referral from the policy editors or the dpkg maintainers, to eliminate any question of supermajority

Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: Any chance you can elaborate on what didn't work well? I believe this will work robustly for packages whose debian/rules is a policy-compliant makefile, and I think that the handful of packages which don't could reasonably required to, at minimum,

Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [110606 22:05]: Andreas Barth a...@not.so.argh.org writes: Option 1 also implies forcing debian/rules to be a Makefile, which is think is sensible. Policy already requires this. The only package in the archive for which this is not already the case is

Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 09:56:22PM +0200, Andreas Barth 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'.[1] Option 1 also implies forcing debian/rules to be a