Re: deprecation of in-tree builds

[Michael Tokarev]

20.08.2020 13:54, Kevin Wolf wrote:
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>> My current plan is to land the Meson series first, because it is
>> really painful for Paolo to try to keep rebasing it as other
>> changes to the old build system occur. This would break
>> in-tree builds temporarily until the "automatic creation and
>> use of a builddir" patches go in on top of it.
> 
> Usually, our requirement is that patch series don't break anything. And
> if something slips through, whoever broke it is supposed to fix it, not
> whoever is affected.

In this case it isn't really broken per se - there's a simple
workaround (build in a subdir). This rule exist to keep the
bisectability, and this one is trivial by invoking this very
workaround.

/mjt