Hi, I would like to propose a mass bug filing on source packages that miss support for build-arch or build-indep targets in debian/rules.
Those targets were made mandatory in Debian Policy 3.9.4 (released in August 2012). From the changelog: * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules, implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh. (Closes: #374029) There are currently 411 packages in testing that do not include those targets, according to lintian's debian-rules-missing-recommended-target tag. (I will also file a bug against lintian to reflect that those targets are now required). I do not particularly care about those targets, but I believe that it is a good idea to use this old policy change as a way to identify packages whose packaging should be upgraded to newer practices. Here is the template I plan to use: -------------------------------------->8 Source: SOURCE Version: VERSION Severity: serious Tags: bookworm sid Usertags: build-arch-indep Hi, According to lintian, this package does not implement build-arch/build-indep targets in debian/rules. Those are mandatory since Debian Policy 3.9.4, released in 2012. This mass bug filing was discussed on the debian-devel mailing list. See URL While fixing this bug, please also consider upgrading this package's packaging to newer standards or best practices (such as using dh, maintaining the package in git on salsa, using a newer source format, etc.) -------------------------------------->8 I attached a dd-list. To limit the noise on the debian-bugs-rc list, I will wait until after the bullseye release to file those bugs. Any comments? Lucas
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