Re: Use $DEB_BUILD_DIR rather than parent directory?

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Subject: Re: Use $DEB_BUILD_DIR rather than parent directory?
From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 01:00:44 +0100
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 87bsv77ok3.fsf@indy.progeny.com>; from epg@progeny.com on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 03:13:32PM -0500
References: <8766li8xk0.fsf@indy.progeny.com> <20001120111022.A32756@molehole.moregruel.net> <20001120183217.C32730@cistron.nl> <87g0km7b60.fsf@indy.progeny.com> <20001122182315.I16991@cistron.nl> <[🔎] 87bsv77ok3.fsf@indy.progeny.com>

Previously Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
> Eh? It isn't. The user *told* dpkg to do this by setting the
> variable.

dpkg isn't the one deciding where to put it, the person who wrote
debian/rules is. Let me summarize my opinion: I will absolutely
refuse to modify dpkg in a way that it lets an environment variable
override a commandline parameter. 

Wichert.

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