Bug#229357: Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 03:03:20PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Bill Allombert wrote: I like to say I concurr with Russ. There are some much difference between packages that

Bug#229357: Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Plus a note in policy clarifying that debian/rules is only an interface for dpkg-buildpackage but not users. Right. If you want to make this a rule, then we should discuss it, reach a consensus, document and publicize the change, and so forth.

Bug#229357: Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 05:36:46PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Bill Allombert wrote: I have to say i verry rarely do not use debuild. And 99% of the exceptions are calling debian/rules clean. Precisely, debuild does not use dpkg-buildpackage, but call

Bug#229357: Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 08:46 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Bill Allombert wrote: People have noticed that and already requested that we can call arbitrary targets of debian/rules with all the proper initialization done precisely for test purpose during

Bug#229357: Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Bill Allombert wrote: I like to say I concurr with Russ. There are some much difference between packages that distributions wide default does not make sense. Such change would rather lead me to hardcode values of

Bug#229357: Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-09-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:53 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Bill Allombert wrote: I like to say I concurr with Russ. There are some much difference between packages that distributions wide default does not make sense. Such change