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Re: lintian whining about app-defaults file



On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 08:00:02PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> ...
> Reading the documentation would be a good next step.  What is DH_COMPAT set to
> in your build environment?  From dh_installdeb(1):
> 
>        If DH_COMPAT is set to 3 or higher, all files in the etc/
>        directory in a package will automatically be flagged as
>        conffiles by this program, so there is no need to list
>        them manually in package.conffiles.
> 
> Note that setting DH_COMPAT has other effects as well, so make sure you read
> the man pages for the other debhelper commands that are used in your rules
> file.

Okay, this seems to fix the problem, if I set that in my environment.
But how am I supposed to cleanly set an environment variable for an
autobuilder?
I tried putting
DH_COMPAT=3
in a line by itself in debian/rules, but that didn't work.

Where are some docs on the autobuilder environment?



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