On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 05:22:45PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Russ Allbery writes ("Re: draft ballot: please rule on how to implement > debian/rules build-arch"): > > Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes: > > > BTW, another option for the long-term solution which we haven't really > > > addressed head-on is that dpkg-buildpackage could detect whether both > > > arch-indep and arch-dep packages are present in debian/control, and use > > > build-arch *only* when both are present.
> This would be a nice way out. Do we know what proportion of packages > would fail if we did this ? > Another possibility, inspired by some bootstrapping machinery Wookey > told me about, would be this: > DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=build-arch-only debian/rules build > Either as a transitional arrangement, or permanently. I mention it > here because it seems like a plausible idea and we should consider > whether we like it. > Personally I really dislike all the make-based heuristic autodetection > and will vote any of those below FD (although I expect to be > outvoted). > Maybe we're going to end up with "break n% of the archive" as the > least-hated answer... Well, I was planning on voting "break n% of the archive" before FD for the current value of n. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- 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/20110724201910.gj10...@virgil.dodds.net