[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#478524: Bug#478524: Problem with autobuild of libtommath/0.39-2

[Roger Leigh]

Joe Nahmias <jello at debian.org> writes:

> Hi Roger,
>
> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:36:37PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
>> Joe Nahmias <jello at debian.org> writes:
> [snip]
>> I discussed this yesterday on #debian-devel.  The main issues are
>
>> - most packages do not yet contain a build-arch|build-indep target,
>>   and policy currently makes this optional.  Calling "debian/rules
>>   binary-arch" will break a lot of packages.
>
> Um, my reading of policy says that BINARY-arch is required and should
> depend on the appropriate targets to build the package as necessary.

That's just a mistake on my part; that should have read "build-arch".

> So, I don't see why dpkg-buildpackage can't simply run:
>
> ...
>   debian/rules clean
>   debian/rules binary-arch
> ...
>
> All this would do is potentially expose bugs in packages that are not
> currently policy-compliant in terms of the target dependancies, of which
> I doubt there are very many due to dh_make templates and the like.

Whatever the case is, concrete numbers are needed, rather than
hypothesising.  The extent of breakage needs to be known before
implementing any changes.


Regards,
Roger

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