#include <hallo.h> * Marc Dequènes [Tue, Jun 13 2006, 11:31:51AM]: > > tags 373164 + wontfix > thanks
Then document it properly. What I expect as user is a good readable overview of how CDBS poisons the environment: ie. a complete list of variables set and overriden by it with links to the conflicting packages. Currently, your manual is unreadable because all the var names are spread over different paragraphs, I would like to see a summary, a table with names, short descriptions and links. > Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Please stop using abusing the DEB_DESTDIR variable which have been used > > by module-assistant includes for many years now. Please do better > > research when starting using variables, blindly overriding the existing > > ones. Please give the variables useful names. DEB_DESTDIR does not mean > > the destination directory for the deb file. It means something different > > any maybe should be renamed to CDBS_CONTENTS_DIR. Exactly like most of > > your other variables, why are you using DEB_ prefix? CDBS_ would be > > more appropriate, it would describe who set it and why. > > CDBS is using DEB_DESTDIR (and DEB_*) for years. I don't know which one > used it first, but this is quite an ancient behavior ; i'm astonished > you complained this late, as it is now *IMPOSSIBLE* to fix this problem, > too many packages would FTBFS if we change such variables. I sent a complaint to your mailing list before. Apparently it has been ignored. > I strongly agree CDBS_* would have been better, nevertheless, why should > module-assistant have the priviledge of DEB_* variables usage ? If the > closest relationship to debhelper wins, then CDBS wins. And if the closest relationship of the var name and var meaning counts, then module-assistant wins. Eduard.
