RFC: devscripts .rc file(s)

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

There are a couple of wishlist requests asking for devscripts programs
to have a .rc/.conf file facility.  There are several programs which
could benefit from such things: debuild, debsign and debrelease to
name just some.

I'm just not sure what the most helpful format of .rc files would be.
The two possibilities I have thought of so far are:

- one /etc/devscripts.conf or ~/.devscriptsrc file, which would
  contain lines of the form:

    debuild: -k0x12345678
    debrelease: -t master

  and these options would be read whenever the program is run (with
  the possibility of ignoring the .rc file, obviously)

- a /etc/devscripts/ or ~/.devscripts/ directory, with files such as
  debuild.conf in them, which would be something like:

    # debuild.conf
  
    # any extra debuild-specific options to always use
    DEBUILD_OPTS=
  
    # any extra dpkg-buildpackage options to always pass on
    DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_OPTS=-k0x12345678

Do people have preferences for one or the other?  Or is there a better
way of doing it?

   Julian

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