Bug#431014: Why won't you ship /usr/bin/gcc-snapshot?
On 2011-12-30 17:15:00 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> No, I mean that packagers can but should not use
>
> Build-Depends: gcc-snapshot
>
> CC = gcc-snapshot
>
> "Don't do that, then." you might say. But not providing a
> /usr/bin/gcc-snapshot wrapper provides people with a reminder to look
> at README.Debian and not to do that.
OK. Couldn't the wrapper detect that it is being used by a packager
(e.g. because some environment variable is set by the build process)
and output an error in such a case?
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