Subject: Bug#657390: Proposed mass bug filing: packages without support for build-arch and build-indep

From: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2021 12:50:19 +0100

On 06/11/2021 12:40, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Nov 2021 at 11:31:25 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> On 05/11/2021 21:22, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
>>> build-arch and build-indep are required targets according to Debian
>>> Policy section 4.9.
> ...
>>> Unfortunately this is only a warning in lintian, which might explain
>>> why so many packages are still affected.
>>
>> lintian should move those targets to the debian-rules-missing-required-target tag.
> 
> That request is #657390 (in cc).
> 
> When this was discussed some years ago, Niels Thykier pointed out that
> debian-rules-missing-required-target is on the ftp team's list of Lintian
> tags that cause automatic rejection[1], so making that change in Lintian
> would make it impossible to do a sourceful upload of the affected packages
> (for example to fix some unrelated RC issue) without also adding the
> required targets.
> 
> This does not necessarily mean the Lintian change is a bad idea, it's just
> something we should be aware of - expanding the scope of autorejections
> should be intentional rather than accidental.

Ack, in that case let's wait until this mbf is done and some time is given for 
the packages to get fixed. After that, I think this should become an error and 
autorejection.

Cheers,
Emilio