On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:11:41PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > When reading the documentation page, the '-a' option clearly states 'Act
> > on all architecture dependent packages', and therefore this does seem to
> > be consistent with the documentation. However, I believe redefining it
> > to say 'all architecture dependent packages relevant for this
> > architecture' would be more useful
>
> That's the -s flag, have you tried it?
Ah, no; I missed that. Thanks for pointing it out; I probably read the
whole manpage at some point when I wrote the initial nbd rules file, but
since that's so many years ago, I'm not surprised new features have
cropped up in the mean time ;-)
> > while it would be unlikely that this
> > would bebreaking anything that depends on the current behaviour (the
> > current behaviour results in either building the same thing as this
> > proposed behaviour, or failing outright).
>
> IIRC the reason -a does not do what -s does is because it made debhelper
> quite a bit slower since it needs to run dpkg-architecture (at least twice)
> for each command.
Oh, I see. Yes, that would be a good reason, I suppose.
> That speed issue may not be very relevant now (except for
> on, oh, m68k and arm?). And maybe that could be optimised.. in fact
> I think I just eliminated it.
>
> The only case I can imagine where the current -a behavior might be depended
> on is something using dh_listpackages -a to get a list of all binary packages,
> including ones not built for the current architecture, and doing something
> with it other than building packages. That seems unlikely.
Right.
> I don't think there's any particular reason for dh to have its current
> behavior -- it can run dpkg-architecture just once when figuring out
> which packages to act on. The change there looks to be this simple, though
> I need to test it:
... and your follow-up mail shows that there is a significant
difference.
While detecing it could work, it might also be reasonable to just have
dh support a '-s' option; if that is specified, then dh should pass -s
rather than -a to all the commands it runs.
OTOH, having a snippet that says
override_dh_gencontrol:
dh_gencontrol -s
is not quite as ugly as the ifeq() make construction that I'm living
with now, would not result in dh having to pass -s to *every* command so
would not slow things down quite as considerably, and is small enough
that I would be able to live with it.
Feel free to close without further mention if you're not going to do the
autodetection or extra option to dh.
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