Re: Recording VCS information in the source package info
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:14:51 +0100, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, James Westby wrote:
> > > Right now, dpkg-dev building tools are mostly VCS-agnostic (I would like
> > > this to change, by providing a generic vcs-buildpackage) and the only
> > > solution to add those fields is to pass -D parameters to the dpkg-source
> > > call.
> >
> > Which isn't currently accessible from dpkg-buildpackage, advice on
> > dealing with that would be appreciated.
>
> That's http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=566230
> we just need to decide on the proper syntax and we can implement it.
> But I got no feedback :(
Ah, shame you got no feedback. None of them are particularly appetising,
but I would lean towards
dpkg-buildpackage --dpkg-source-opt="<opt>" -us -uc
as there is less magic than the first and less typing than the second.
> That seems pretty hypothetic at that stage though, can you think of
> concrete use cases?
Please see my other mail for this.
Thanks,
James
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