Re: debian/rules and DEB_BUILD_PROFILES vs _OPTIONS
On 2020-09-06 23:27, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 10:53:05PM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote:
> The thing is, according to the build profile spec, if you specify nodoc
> or nocheck in _PROFILES you *MUST* also specify it on _OPTIONS (talking
> about when you do the build), so…
That's why I find this part odd:
>> Looking at random packages, newer packages seem to favor just checking
>> DEB_BUILD_PROFILES
Given what was said above for the major use cases nodoc and nocheck,
_OPTIONS > _PROFILES, so I wonder why _PROFILES is favored.
>From Niels' response, I guess one can conclude why this isn't an issue
for the nodoc case.
> You should read the manpages for more details.
I did, and while _OPTIONS and_PROFILES are both explained, the
relationship between them (if any) is not.
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