Hi, The targets are "officially" mandatory and have been since 3.9.4 (released in September 2012). Currently lintian and dpkg still forgive their absence to avoid auto-rejects and FTBFS bugs. However, Guillem and I would like to get the remaining packages updated sooner rather than later (notably dpkg has a hack to support the old packages, which we would like to drop).
As there are still about 1600 packages affected by this issue[1], we
would like to start smaller:
* We propose a mass bug filing against all packages *without* either
build-{arch,indep} targets, which build *both* arch:all and
architecture dependent packages.
- The set of affected packages is currently 99[2].
* After the deadline for fixing this, dpkg would be able to drop the
hack for any source package building both arch:all and arch:any
packages.
* Proposed deadline: June 1st 2016
- Assuming 14 days to review this mass bug filing, we would file the
bugs on the 18th of April. This would leave a bit over a month for
packages to be fixed.
* The bug template and the dd-list of affected packages are attached.
Future MBF
==========
We intend to do another round of MBF for this problem once we have
located a way to break down the remaining packages into smaller and more
manageable sets.
Thanks,
Guillem and Niels
[1]
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-rules-missing-recommended-target.html
As always, lintian double-counts packages when they are in unstable and
experimental with the same issue.
[2]
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-would-benefit-from-build-arch-targets.html
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Hi, The package #PACKAGE# builds an architecture independent *and* an architecture dependent package, but does not have the (now mandatory) "build-arch" and "build-indep" targets in debian/rules. We would like to phase out the hacks in dpkg, which are currently needed to ensure that #PACKAGE# builds despite its lack of these targets. * Please add build-arch and build-indep targets to #PACKAGE# at your earliest convenience. * The work around will be removed in the first dpkg upload after the 1st of June. After that upload, #PACKAGE# will FTBFS if this bug has not been fixed before then. Thanks, See also: <link to the MBF thread>
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