Arthur D.: > Thanks for great answer. You really helped a lot! > >> Can you tell a bit about where you expected this to be documented? I.e. >> where would you have found it if it had been documented? > > Personally I tried to find some info about the issue using these commands: > man dh > man debhelper > > The search expression I used: /flags/, /FLAGS/.
Thanks, I will look at a place to fit that information into one of those man pages. > I also tried to search for /dh/ or /debhelper/ in manual page for > dpkg-buildflags. > > Thanks, > Arthur D. Yes, I suspect the dpkg maintainer would like to avoid having tool specific instructions to a Debian specific tool. Side note: there are distributions using dpkg but not debhelper at all. Thanks, ~Niels