Package: apt-build
Version: 0.12.28
Severity: wishlist

Hi Tim,

At 1184745586 time_t, Tim Blechmann wrote:
> i've got a feature request for apt-build which would make my live a bit
> easier.
> 
> i'm basically looking for an `apt-build upgrade-world' command which
> does the following: if a package is listed in /etc/apt/apt-build.list it
> will be rebuilt and reinstalled if the source package is newer than the
> package, that is provided in the repository directory
> 
> this has two advantages:
> - packages are also upgraded after cleaning the apt-build build or
> repository directories
> - packages that are up to date won't need to be rebuilt as it is the
> case when running `apt-build world'
> 
> if i were a perl programmer, i'd implement it myself ... unfortunately
> i'm not, thus i'm asking you, what do you think of this? imo this should
> make apt-build way more usable ... 
> 
> thanks in advance ... tim

Make sense, I'm opening a bug for that.

Cheers,
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