Control: tag -1 wontfix Hi!
On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 22:52:08 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.16.10 > Severity: wishlist > 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. Honestly I don't see the point in all this (at least not right now). One of the reasons for dpkg-buildflags was to be able to do distribution-wide global flags changes. If we have to modify each and every package in the distribution to be able to make use of possible new flags that point is defeated, we could as well switch back to manually setting them. Also possibly adding this right now, would imply just churn for maintainers, as the absence of level would need to be considered the same as the first level introduced. In any case the addition of new flags should be a pretty conservative process [0], and we can always add more experimental ones as new feature areas disabled by default for example, which can be enabled by the maintainers. Given the above, and that I'm seeing this more like a problem than a solution to one, I'm marking this wontfix for now, and probably close it in a bit if no compelling arguments are put forward. [0] <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/FAQ#Q:_Can_we_add_support_for_new_default_build_flags_to_dpkg-buildflags.3F> Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
