Re: DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE: is it popular and should we document it?
Philipp Kern wrote:
> On 2009-09-27, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote:
>> in a discussion on how to force network-dependant regression tests (that
>> must be disabled in our build network, but whose result I want to see
>> before uploading), I was suggested by Jonas Smedegaard, who got this idea
>> from Romain Beauxis, to use a DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE environment variable
>> that is detected in debian/rules.
>>
>> I was just wondering if other people were using something similar and if
>> there would be ground for standardisation.s
>
> Although the goal to enable more tests is laudable the approach of
> modifying a maintainer build that is later uploaded to the archive from a
> buildd build
> doesn't sound right. Maybe the build could then fail in the end through
> dpkg-buildpackage so that the result cannot be uploaded?
But then you cannot automatically check if maintainer mode did it's thing
correctly.
--
Felipe Sateler
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