On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 14:08:33 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Would there not be some advantage to making dpkg-buildpackge the > interface for building? (Not dropping the debian/rules interface, > of course.) This would permit the automatic setting of all the > host- and build-related variables without requiring every package > to also set them by hand. It would of course still be possible > to build using debian/rules directly, but it wouldn't be required > to set the flags. > I'm not sure how you reconcile "make dpkg-buildpackage the interface for building" and "not dropping the debian/rules interface". If you say packages are allowed to use variables they don't set, then that means "debian/rules build" is allowed to fail, which would be a pain when working on a package, and effectively means "dropping the debian/rules interface" AFAICT. Cheers, Julien
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