Drew Parsons: > On Sun, 2018-06-17 at 16:44 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: >> >>>> But lintian complains that it should be set to >>>> DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS >>>> instead. >>>> >>>> But when I change it to DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS=nocheck (or >>>> "export >>>> DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS=nocheck"), the tests are run. >>>> DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS is being ignored at build time. >>>> >>>> Is it dh and debhelper that the bug needs to be sent to? >>> >>> >> Indeed, overriding dh_auto_test is probably what you are looking for. >> >> As for debhelper supporting DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS. It is possible, >> but are we sure it makes sense for packagers to >> DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS >> for things like nocheck, nostrip, noautodbgsym, parallel=n, etc.? > > > I don't get it. What is the point of DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS (and the > lintian warning about DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS) if no tool is actually using > it? > > Drew > >
The primary use of DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS that I know of is to make dpkg-buildflags enable hardening or other special-case compiler flags. E.g. DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS=hardening=+all. That use-case is completely handled/covered by dpkg-buildflags. Thanks, ~Niels
