Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.10 Severity: wishlist Hello DPKG developers,
To be reliable, dpkg-buildflags should provide a versionning system like debhelper does with debian/compat. dpkg-buildflags would defines a interface level (1,2,3,...) that is incremented each time the output of 'dpkg-buildflags --dump' change in the default configuration. Such interface level would be defined per vendor. Then dpkg-buildflags would provide an option --level <version> to choose the interface level to use. So 'dpkg-buildflags --level 1' would always return the same output even if dpkg-buildflags is updated to set different flags (unless the user override the default). This would allow to rebuild packages with newer dpkg-dev versions without the risk of getting different values for the flags that the original binaries used. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
