Re: Something like nocompress DEB_BUILD_OPTION

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>, 2012-11-21, 01:48:
> > This should be a standard interface via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS, because 
> > dh_builddeb / dpkg-deb is not the only way to build compliant binary 
> > packages.
>
> Policy §4.9 explains:
>
> Both binary-* targets should depend on the build target, or on the 
> appropriate build-arch or build-indep target, if provided, so that the 
> package is built if it has not been already. It should then create the 
> relevant binary package(s), using dpkg-gencontrol to make their control 
> files and dpkg-deb to build them [...]
>
> Do any packages violate that?

pax eats its own dog food: it builds binary packages using pax, avoiding 
dpkg-deb (except for cross-compiling).

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Jakub Wilk