P. J. McDermott wrote: > As mentioned previously by Wookey and Jonathan, staged binary packages > should be marked as such in their control files so they aren't > accidentally uploaded to the archive as complete packages. > > To this end, I propose the addition of a new "Build-Stage: N" (or > similar) field. This would of course be added to %FIELDS in > Dpkg::Control::Fields and be set (if "stage=N" is found in > DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS) by dpkg-gencontrol.
Thanks --- yes, this would be a comfort. Do I understand correctly that in the stage-N build, the installed versions of all build-time dependencies (and their dependencies, et cetera) must have build-stage >= (N-1)? What about the standard build? Does it happen repeatedly, incrementing the stage number, until the result is stable, or is there some other method for approximating the limit? :) Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
