Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch
* Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) [120320 21:48]:
> Hearing no objections, I call for a TC vote on the following ballot:
>
> A. dpkg-buildpackage, when doing a binary-only build (-B), should probe
> the package with "make -qn" to see if the build-arch target appears to
> be implemented. If so, it should use "debian/rules build-arch" to
> build the package instead of "debian/rules build". If it detects via
> "make -qn" that the target is missing, it should output a warning
> asking the packager to implement the required targets, and then fall
> back to using "debian/rules build".
>
> The fallback to "debian/rules build" and the "make -qn" auto-detection
> are temporary to ease the transition but should be dropped at some
> point (wheezy+1, or wheezy+2).
>
> Debian Policy should be updated to make build-arch and build-indep
> mandatory targets.
>
> B. Further discussion
I vote AB.
Andi
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