On Wed, Mar 18, 2009, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > There is a good use case for this that doesn't require a conditional, which is > passing --with-package-name=$(DEB_VENDOR) to configure for packages that have > this option (e.g. the GStreamer stack, that right now checks > lsb_release -si output.
Good point; that's similar to when the "exactly this vendor" check makes sense > It doesn't solve your concerns but perhaps you could do some common > action or apply the Debian logic for anything else (which would be the > same as not looking at DEB_VENDOR at all). Applying the Debian logic is not good enough for e.g. derivatives of Ubuntu as they want to fork the Ubuntu behavior and patches etc. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org