On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:53:46AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > So according to your rule that policy should standardize "common practice" > and not mandate something completely new, the env variable proposal is in > more widespread usage.
For ten years, the "common practice" was that dpkg-buildpackage did not set any variable. We cannot standardize on the "env variable proposal" because such proposal has never be made. Instead dpkg-buildpackage was broken in Lenny, and should be fixed ASAP. Now we have packages that do not build correctly with dpkg-buildpackage, others that do not build correctly with debian/rules binary, and all handle env var differently. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
