Daniel, On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 10:36:42AM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > There's no guarantee that "make" is being used for building, and > > it's non-trivial to determine if it is or is not in use, nor how to > > invoke it appropriately. If we want to do it centrally, it would > > be more reliable to add a new target which sbuild or other build > > tools could invoke on error, and which package maintainers could > > add to support their specific requirements. > > That would be quite OK. Maybe every target could have an optional "on > failure" target. > > As well as a new target (or targets), there would also need to be some > way to have the output of the target redirected to a dedicated log
During the buildd / wanna-build bof at debconf, there was a short discussion about collecting information during failing builds and making the info available to developers. http://penta.debconf.org/dc13_schedule/events/1026.en.html It starts at 30:30 in the video. Cheers, Ivo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130908092249.ga28...@ugent.be
