On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:44:21AM +0200, Kari Pahula wrote:
But, since it's not a requirement for debian/rules build-{arch,indep}
to return an error when the targets are missing, tools such as
dpkg-buildpackage have no choice but to always call debian-rules build
even when building arch
* Kari Pahula [Wed, 04 Jan 2006 11:37:46 +0200]:
The reason why I got to think about this policy change was because I
noticed that every arch's buildd was calling my build-indep and having
doxygen generate 30 MBs of docs. I was suggested on IRC to either
generate the docs in binary-indep or
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 11:23:43AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
Before going farther, I strongly recommends you read the
bug log for #218893.
Good to see that this has been discussed before.
IMHO the sanest thing would be to make build-{arch,indep} goals
mandatory. It would make build-arch
Kari Pahula [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But all of the above are just implementation details. The important
change would be to make it a requirement for build-{arch,indep} to be
present.
The difficulty with this sort of change is that it requires changing every
Debian package, or near to. I'm
Kari Pahula [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:30:04AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
The difficulty with this sort of change is that it requires changing
every Debian package, or near to. I'm going to have the same problem
with
As far as changes go, this one can be minimally
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:30:04AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Kari Pahula [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But all of the above are just implementation details. The important
change would be to make it a requirement for build-{arch,indep} to be
present.
The difficulty with this sort of
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 01:56:13PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
I just don't know how this sort of change fits into the policy process.
How about this: change the policy to state that build-arch and
build-indep should be present, make it a lintian warning if they're
missing and defer any decision
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 02:34:45PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
Kari Pahula writes (Bug#345619: debian-policy: 4.8. binary-{arch, indep}
should fail with error code 2 - must):
Debian policy 4.8. states:
If one or both of the targets `build-arch' and `build-indep' are
not provided
Kari Pahula writes (Bug#345619: debian-policy: 4.8. binary-{arch, indep}
should fail with error code 2 - must):
Debian policy 4.8. states:
If one or both of the targets `build-arch' and `build-indep' are
not provided, then invoking `debian/rules' with one of the
not-provided targets
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.6.2.1
Severity: wishlist
Debian policy 4.8. states:
If one or both of the targets `build-arch' and `build-indep' are
not provided, then invoking `debian/rules' with one of the
not-provided targets as arguments should produce a exit status
code of 2.
I'm
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