On Sun, 07 Aug 2011, Joey Hess wrote: > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Joey, once the new dpkg is in unstable, can we revert this and get the > > packages fixed to use the proper dpkg-buildflags interface to adjust > > the flags to avoid the failure? > > > > Because in my opinion, it's much more important to have a wide usage of > > dpkg-buildflags. You don't know how many packages are broken or no longer > > policy compliant because they were relying on those environment > > variables... > > If you don't know that, then you cannot turn of dpkg-buildpackage's use > of dpkg-buildflags. I and others have repeatedly told you that is > probably the case.
We also don't really want to keep indefinitely something that was recognized by many as a mistake. So yes, there's going to some breakage but I wanted to limit it to the packages who are not using any modern helper. By limiting the debhelper change to compat v9, this will no longer be true. I don't plan to go backwards now. We'll see how it turns out. In any case, the next dpkg upload will come with a d-d-a announce. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
