Bug#206684: debian-policy: Proposal for going ahead with mandatory debconf use for prompting

2007-03-07 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 07/03/07 at 23:07 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > I would really like to see that happening at the beginning of the lenny > > release cycle. Packages that prompt without using debconf make it > > unnecessary difficult to test them using piuparts. > > > > Looking at my piuparts results (test

Bug#206684: debian-policy: Proposal for going ahead with mandatory debconf use for prompting

2007-03-07 Thread Christian Perrier
> I would really like to see that happening at the beginning of the lenny > release cycle. Packages that prompt without using debconf make it > unnecessary difficult to test them using piuparts. > > Looking at my piuparts results (testing packages in etch), most packages > that prompt the user alr

Bug#209008: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2007-03-07 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 07/03/07 at 19:32 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 06:08:52PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Bug #209008 proposed to have a common interface to tell packages to do > > parallel building (make -j). > > > > Not having this is a PITA for me,

Bug#209008: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2007-03-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 06:08:52PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Bug #209008 proposed to have a common interface to tell packages to do > parallel building (make -j). > > Not having this is a PITA for me, since I do rebuilds of the whole > Debian archive on clusters

Bug#206684: debian-policy: Proposal for going ahead with mandatory debconf use for prompting

2007-03-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:34:30PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > I would really like to see that happening at the beginning of the lenny > release cycle. Packages that prompt without using debconf make it > unnecessary difficult to test them using piuparts. > > Looking at my piuparts res

Bug#209008: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2007-03-07 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, Bug #209008 proposed to have a common interface to tell packages to do parallel building (make -j). Not having this is a PITA for me, since I do rebuilds of the whole Debian archive on clusters of machines, and my current total build time is only dependant of the time taken to build the large

Bug#206684: debian-policy: Proposal for going ahead with mandatory debconf use for prompting

2007-03-07 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
[ context: that bug from 2003 discusses the possibility to switch from "should" to "must" for debconf prompting ] On 22/08/03 at 19:17 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 07:46:56AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > This proposal is what I think to be the next step : make this