Hi!
On Sun, 2016-04-03 at 17:29:32 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
> 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].
Niels handled this some time ago.
> * 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.
This has happened now with the upload of dpkg 1.18.8.
Thanks,
Guillem
