Hi, On 18.10.2017 11:36, Guillem Jover wrote: > Using dpkg-buildpackage as the official build entry point would allow > for much debian/rules refactoring and reduction, and optimizations. The important bit isn't whether dpkg-buildpackage is the official entry point, because that isn't what Policy cares about. Policy defines an interface to be used by whatever build tool is used, and all conforming packages implement this interface. If a package doesn't build correctly without environment variables that aren't part of the interface, then the package is buggy and needs to be fixed. If we want to extend the interface, then we need to change Policy. We can just define that all the variables provided by dpkg-buildpackage are part of the interface now (and I don't have a real problem with that), but I'd rather not delegate the Policy definition of a source package to the dpkg-buildpackage manpage, last but not least because we have multiple versions of that manpage in different releases. Simon
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