On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 03:11:21PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > 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 think you should start with a lower severity and consider bumping it to serious once you're down to a manageable number (and possibly a couple of NMU campaigns).
Cheers, Julien