Re: Some autobuilders wait for build-indep dependencies

2008-08-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 12:10:28PM +0200, Francisco Moya wrote: [...] Debian Policy only knows as much as what we put in it. Therefore it isn't almighty, and it *certainly* isn't a stick to beat people with, as you're trying to do here. The fact that some insanity isn't in policy doesn't

Re: Some autobuilders wait for build-indep dependencies

2008-08-18 Thread Andreas Metzler
FRANCISCO MOYA FERNANDEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I already know that people do also build their own packages, thanks. You do not need to rewire the debian/rules in order to build zeroc-ice binary-arch packages but AFAIK in your PowerPC you cannot currently build zeroc-ice binary-all packages,

Re: Some autobuilders wait for build-indep dependencies

2008-08-18 Thread Francisco Moya
I finally decided to turn target 'build' into an alias of target 'build-arch' for all architectures. This is already done in some other packages (e.g. orsa) and cdbs provides explicit support for it. I know there is a bit of controversy on this but Policy is not strictly against it. On Sat,

Re: Some autobuilders wait for build-indep dependencies

2008-08-18 Thread Andreas Metzler
FRANCISCO MOYA FERNANDEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I already know that people do also build their own packages, thanks. You do not need to rewire the debian/rules in order to build zeroc-ice binary-arch packages but AFAIK in your PowerPC you cannot currently build zeroc-ice binary-all packages,

Re: Some autobuilders wait for build-indep dependencies

2008-08-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:51:08PM +0200, FRANCISCO MOYA FERNANDEZ wrote: I already know that people do also build their own packages, thanks. You do not need to rewire the debian/rules in order to build zeroc-ice binary-arch packages but AFAIK in your PowerPC you cannot currently build

Re: Some autobuilders wait for build-indep dependencies

2008-08-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:29:53AM +0200, Francisco Moya wrote: Hi, I've uploaded a new version of zeroc-ice packages which essentially falls back to target build-arch whenever the autobuilder tries the build target on architectures other than i386. I hope the Build-Options control field

Some autobuilders wait for build-indep dependencies

2008-08-11 Thread Francisco Moya
Hi, I've uploaded a new version of zeroc-ice packages which essentially falls back to target build-arch whenever the autobuilder tries the build target on architectures other than i386. I hope the Build-Options control field or a similar approach will enter the Debian policy soon so that I can