On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 07:21:17PM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
>...
> In general, I realise that not every makefile might implement
> VERBOSE/V, but I think it's the most common pattern, so I think it's
> the best chance we have to support it automagically via debhelper. If
> some package uses a different set of variables for verbosity (or none
> at all), then they'll have to use overrides, but they'd be no worse
> than now - of course unless there are more breakages, in which case we
> can revert/use a compat level. Does this sound like a plan?
>...
The problem is not about finding the correct variable for verbosity.
The problem is that Makefiles are allowed to use variables like V or
VERBOSE for whatever purpose they want, and with whatever values they
want.
It is not even clear that all breakages are FTBFS,
we might end up with misbuilt packages due to that.
> Kind regards,
> Luca Boccassi
cu
Adrian
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