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Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage



[ Bcced to -devel and -dpkg, discussion should happen on -policy ]

Hello,

we have an unfortunate situation where the practice in dpkg-buildpackage
and the policy do not match fully.

I tried to summarize the problem here:
http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/DebianRules

I want to resolve this problem. I see two solutions:

* either we modify policy to mandate the set of environment variables that
  dpkg-buildpackage sets

* or we roll-back changes to dpkg-buildpackage and design something else
  that provide the same feature in terms of distribution-wide control of
  default build options. (I ignore the DEB_VENDOR feature, it can be easily
  replaced with dpkg-vendor but the build options case is much more tricky
  to get right)


In terms of efforts, the first solution is the easiest. But we aim at the
_right_ solution so feel free to design something that makes the second
solution viable.

Regards,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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