Re: Misc development news (#6)

[Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>]

Hi,

>  Since dpkg 1.14.17, dpkg-buildpackage will define the environment
>  variables CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS and FFLAGS. The goal is to
>  be able to easily recompile packages with supplementary compilation flags
>  and to simplify the debian/rules files since CFLAGS has the right default
>  value (no need to special case for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt).

This sounds like a bad idea to me, as it communicates instructions
(CFLAGS) along with intent (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS). How is a package
supposed to behave if these differ, or even detect that it is asked to
do something that is wonky?

   Simon