Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-11 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Roger, On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 02:02:52AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 11:14:14AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] Steve Langasek > > | 4) Turn on direct use of 'debian/rules build-arch' on the autobuilders > > for > > | all packages in unstable and experiment

Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-11 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 01:04:00AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Roger, > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 02:02:52AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 11:14:14AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > ]] Steve Langasek > > Summarised: > > - autodetection with "make -qn" breaks few,

Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-11 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Roger Leigh , 2011-06-11, 12:19: 7) Failed autodetection - autodetection failed to detect an existing build-arch target - unconditional used build-arch A complete list of packages is at the bottom; these are selected examples. Example: spring_0.82.7.1+dfsg1-3 In this package, the

Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-11 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 01:37:05PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Roger Leigh , 2011-06-11, 12:19: > >7) Failed autodetection > > - autodetection failed to detect an existing build-arch target > > - unconditional used build-arch > > A complete list of packages is at the bottom; these are selected

Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011, Roger Leigh wrote: > I would like to suggest that it may be preferable for dpkg-buildpackage > to implement both > - make -qn autodetection and > - Build-Features > > This will permit the vast majority of packages to build using > build-arch today, without any modification. I

Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-11 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:19:47PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > (7) Packages failing due to broken autodetection I'm afraid the query wasn't entirely correct for this one. The real list is this: # SELECT o.package, o.version FROM orig AS o INNER JOIN auto AS a ON o.package=a.package AND o.version

Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-11 Thread Ian Jackson
(Sorry to just join this conversation; I was on holiday in Wales, which was excellent.) Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch"): > I was going to suggest that. The way I prepared the corresponding patch > (the one you called "auto-dete

Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > (Sorry to just join this conversation; I was on holiday in Wales, > which was excellent.) > Raphael Hertzog writes: >> I was going to suggest that. The way I prepared the corresponding patch >> (the one you called "auto-detection") already does that in fact. So the >> few

Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 09:41:18AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 06 Jun 2011, Steve Langasek wrote: > > If this were to be put to a vote today, I would propose the following ballot > > options: > > 1) Implement support for calling 'debian/rules build-arch' in place of > > 'debian/ru

Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011, Steve Langasek wrote: > This actually reads to me the same as option 1. What distinction are you > meaning to draw here? It's not very "direct" use of build-arch if we're > checking 'make -qn' first. The only other differences I see here are > issuing a warning, and explicit