On 11/23/2015 10:52 AM, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> I've noticed that some packages fail to build from source when built
> using "dpkg-buildpackage -A".
> 
> This is not only a violation of policy, but also prevents the package
> from being uploaded in source-only form, as the architecture-independent
> packages are generated by a dedicated "Arch: all" autobuilder which
> does exactly "dpkg-buildpackage -A" and nothing else.
> 
> [ The problem with source-only uploads is aggravated by this bug in
>   ftp.debian.org:
> 
>   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798413
> 
>   which apparently it's only a "normal" bug ].
> 

Hi Santiago,

Thanks for working on this.

> As the number of bugs is going to be greater than ten

Do you have the exact figures? How many packages are affected?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)

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