Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Sonntag, 10. Mai 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>> With the include approach, we lack this feature and bad/broken local
>> overrides can't be detected if we only have the build log at hand.
>
> which reminds me that we dont have build logs for probably a lot more than 25% 
> (*) of the most used packages in the archive. The ones build manually by the 
> developer...
>
> I would really like to see that binaries for all archs are (re-)build on 
> builds and that those logs are kept archived and linked from the PTS. (And 
> arch all too of course).
>
>
> regards,
> 	Holger
>
> (*) wild guess, asuming that most packages are upload on amd64/i386/powerpc 
> and mostly used on i386.

Debuild already creates a build log. I think it would be nice to
include that file in the changes file and have DAK forward it to
buildd.debian.org for archival. git-buildpackage, svn-buildpackage,
... or even dpkg-buildpackage could do this too.

MfG
        Goswin