[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#358033: firebird2: targets build-start and build-end

[Santiago Vila]

Package: firebird2
Version: 1.5.3.4870-2
Severity: wishlist

I wish targets build-start and build-end in debian/rules not to exist.

The rationale is that they show in the build log, which usually
has already a date in another format (made by sbuild, for example).

So, in some sense, those dates are redundant, as autobuilders
already care of timing the build.

But there is more: I had a script which parses the build log and got
confused by the extra "Build started" and "Build ended" strings,
giving a wrong result (it says it takes 70470 seconds to build).

So the strings are usually redundant, and even harmful in some cases.
Could they be gone, please? I really believe timing the build should not
be the job of debian/rules, as every decent build daemon already does that.

Thanks.