Re: RFC: Addition of "Builder: " field to non-maintainer compiled binaries
Hi,
>>"Juan" == Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org> writes:
Juan> On Wed, Apr 01, 1998 at 03:42:33PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
>> A behaviour, such as this, controlled solely by an environmental
>> variable is IMO broken. It should be a command line switch like
>> -m.
Juan> Would it be ok to use a command line switch to
Juan> dpkg-buildpackage, and make it set an environment variable, not
Juan> intended to be used standalone, to be used by dpkg-gencontrol?
Why not also add a command line swith to dpkg-gencontrol? I
think that the relevant concern is solely. If there were a command
line switch as well, even though less convenient than a env var, it
would be better. (Please note I am not advocating removal of the env
var facility).
manoj
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