Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> The underlying problem is that build-arch/indep are not mandatory and
>> thus building must call the "build" target.
>
> This makes sense, thanks for pointing it out.
>
>> If build-indep does take a considerable time then you can use the
>> following hack:
>
> Indeed, it should work, but is rather ugly; I'd rather see Policy
> amended to make build-arch and build-indep mandatory.
>
> --
> Florent
The problem with that is that any package not having a build-* target
becomes instantly RC buggy. Some people are opposed to makeing that
big a spike in the RC graph. And DDs are too lazy to add the optional
build-* targets to prepare for them to become required.
Maybe after etch we could create enough of a group to force buil-*
targets in and damn the RC count. Let the buildds call build-arch and
fail any new upload without the targets and 6 month later fix the
stragglers. I don't see it as a problem to break things that way given
that the simple addition of '%' to the build target will fix the
problem for those too lazy to write build-arch/indep targets.
MfG
Goswin
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