Re: dpkg-buildpackage -ucb

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Guillem Jover writes ("Re: dpkg-buildpackage -ucb"):
> Hi!

Hi.  I see you've dropped -curiosa, which is fair enough.

> For dpkg 1.18.5 I've reworked the built type selection by adding a
> single --build option with comma-separated components "source", "any",
> "all" and "full", to try to improve the current unintuitive mess.

I hadn't spotted this going in.

So "all" means only packages `Architecture: all' ?  Or `all bits of
the build' ?

Is it too late to change this ?  Maybe `aall' for `architecture: all'
and `all' for `everything including source' ?

Does `full' mean `all' or `just debs' ?  Maybe the latter should be
called `deb' ?

Sorry to bikeshed this but things are already confusing, and
dpkg-buildpackage is a primary interface to Debianish source code.  So
perhaps it would be worth taking a step back and running an informal
consultation (including d-devel perhaps) about the UI ?

> So although possibly amusing, I'm afraid I'd rather not go there, as
> this would IMO make the current situation worse. Also could serve as
> precedent for request for all kind of other amusing combinations. :)

Fair enough :-).

Thanks,
Ian.