On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 09:10:54AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: wishlist > > With dpkg 1.15.7 just uploaded to sid, there's now a dpkg-buildflags > command that should be used to initialize CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, > FFLAGS, CXXFLAGS. It offers some flexibility for the local admin and for > the user to override/extend the default flags used during a package > compilation. > > dpkg-buildpackage continues to export them to not break packages but it > exports the value returned by dpkg-buildflags. > > The desired outcome is that all package grab the values directly from > dpkg-buildflags and that we can stop exporting the variables from > dpkg-buildpackage. That way calling debian/rules directly and via > dpkg-buildpackage should give the same result.
Yes, calling debian/rules directly or using dpkg-buildpackage having the same result is clearly the behaviour we want, which is something we don't have now. dpkg-buildflags should be used by packages just like dpkg-architecture. So I'm in favour of recommending it. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
