On 8/1/23 3:13 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 15:43:26 +0100 Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: >> Is there a way this can be done, without making packages FTBFS if debhelper >> is backported to an older suite but Meson is not? -Dpython.bytecompile=-1 >> will cause `meson setup` to fail if Meson is an older version, and I'm not >> aware of a way to say "set this option if supported, ignore if not" without >> parsing `meson --version` and comparing it with a threshold. > > > Just tested, and adding this to a --native-file should work: > > ``` > [built-in options] > python.bytecompile = '-1' > ```
Sorry, no, this works for versions of meson that have the option, but setting unknown properties isn't ignored. Ignore me... -- Eli Schwartz
