Hi Roger, On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:36:37PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Joe Nahmias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > I discussed this yesterday on #debian-devel. The main issues are
Sorry I missed it, had I known I would've liked to participate. > - it's not possible to robustly determine if debian/rules contains a > build-arch or build-indep target due to things like pattern rules. > There are some hacky ways to do this, but these would not be > reliable. Ideally, make needs to provide a means of querying if a > target is present. OK. > - most packages do not yet contain a build-arch|build-indep target, > and policy currently makes this optional. Calling "debian/rules > binary-arch" will break a lot of packages. Um, my reading of policy says that BINARY-arch is required and should depend on the appropriate targets to build the package as necessary. So, I don't see why dpkg-buildpackage can't simply run: ... debian/rules clean debian/rules binary-arch ... All this would do is potentially expose bugs in packages that are not currently policy-compliant in terms of the target dependancies, of which I doubt there are very many due to dh_make templates and the like. > - moving to requiring these targets is something that would need to be > done after the release of Lenny, as a release goal for Lenny+1. I understand for BUILD-arch; but BINARY-arch is required and has been as far back as I can remember (corrections welcome). > > And I would further argue that it's a bug for sbuild to use > > dpkg-buildpackage (as it's currently implemented, using the build > > target) without installing B-D-I. IOW, sbuild should fix this by > > installing B-D-I to work around the dpkg-buildpackage issue, or use some > > other method (run "debian/rules clean; debian/rules binary-arch" > > manually) to build the arch-only portions of packages. Then, when the > > issue with build/build-arch is finally resolved, only sbuild has to be > > changed -- rather than make every packager fix this for each and every > > package. > > I could fix this in sbuild, but unfortunately the packaged sbuild > (which we maintain) is not the same as that used by the actual Debian > autobuilders (which has a separate maintainer), and so this would not > really help. Hopefully at some point the autobuilders can switch to > the buildd-tools code, but the buildd/wanna-build part isn't ready for > that yet. It will hopefully be ready after Lenny, but I can't promise > anything. Ah, it seems I'm barking up the wrong tree... Well, I would certainly suggest that you fix this, but I guess it won't do me all that much good :( Thanks for the information though and if I can help in any way, please feel free to ask. --Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
