On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Package: gs-gpl > Version: 8.01-5 > Severity: normal > > According to Policy, section 5.2, a debian package that is > architecture-independent (thus, one that has 'Architecture: all' set > in the debian/control file) should be built as a dependant of the > binary-indep target of the debian/rules file. > > The gs package, of the gs-gpl source package, does not; not only is this > against policy, it is also a nuisance for those of us who maintain > autobuilders: autobuilders invoke 'dpkg-buildpackage -B' to avoid > binary-indep packages to be built, which results in a .changes that does > not mention the _all.deb files. As a result, they aren't automatically > cleaned either, so must be manually removed. > > Of course, they're also a waste of precious CPU time. > > Please modify your debian/rules file to not build Architecture: all > packages as a dependency of the binary-indep target.
I'm also running an almost-autobuilder. Any progress about this? If you are using debhelper, options -a and -i will help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
