On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 08:28:15PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> Is there anything we can add to debcheck or the PTS to encourage >> maintainers to help break these cycles by adding build profiles and or >> cross-compilation info? > > It seems to be premature to add build profiles to packages, as the initially > proposed implementation (separate fields) has been vetoed in favor of one > that requires extending the syntax of Build-Depends in a way that will take > time for our parsers to catch up to. (Indeed, AFAIK none of the parsers of > Build-Depends currently in the archive currently support the new proposed > syntax.)
Yes, obviously it is too early right now but it would be nice to start work on implementing that. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caktje6hb4vg+rtstwr3ehj-sradgn4ew3_xaaocb2kpwlfk...@mail.gmail.com
