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 >> | if the target does not exist; requires a corresponding update to Policy >> | and mass updates to fix packages that fail to build as a result. >> >> I'd be happy to provide hardware to do a full scale rebuild test of the >> archive if somebody does the actual work of doing the rebuilds. rleigh >> did it for his sbuild resolver test so I've Cc-ed him to see if he's >> interested in doing a test for this too. > > This has been completed now, and the summarised results follow. > All of the build logs, scripts and datafiles are available from > http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/dpkg-rebuild/ > > Summarised: > - autodetection with "make -qn" breaks few, if any packages. > - unconditional use of build-arch breaks approximately 45% of > arch-any packages (the fraction not providing a build-arch > target).
Given that more than half the archive already implements build-arch could we at least change policy NOW to raise the build-arch/indep targets to SHOULD? Better would be MUST, even if that isn't enforced yet, but that would depend on the outcome of this CTTE request. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pqmkx5nf.fsf@frosties.localnet