Package: devscripts Version: 2.9.12 Severity: wishlist While preparing for the current release of Debian Installer, I was uploaded some packages built using debuild that included .svn files by accident, even though I had "DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS:.svn" set in my environment.
Reason turned out to be that debuild clears all envvars, excepting a few, by default. Adding "DEBUILD_PRESERVE_ENVVARS=DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE" in ~/.devscripts solved the issue. Please consider adding the following 2 debhelper envvars to the list of vars not to be reset: - DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE - DH_VERBOSE Rationale: if these are set in the environment, the user will logically expect them to be honored and the chance that they will break a build is very low; the current practice of unsetting them is counter-intuitive. An option would be to print the value of the vars in the build output to alert the the user to their value.
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