Hello, On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 08:59:31AM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > You probably want a custom regex in the -i option to dpkg-source. > > Using debuild and DEBUILD_DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_OPTS in ~/.devscripts is a > > good way to prevent the need to add it to the dpkg-buildpackage > > command-line every time you run it. > > Is it possible to set this option in the package itself? This would > make life easier in case of team maintenance, NMUs and adoption. > If these options can only be set in $HOME, everybody involved will have > to add them themselves. This is IMO a likely cause of error, which > could be avoided. I see your point, but disagree. :-) I would prefer to use a different approach, which will break instead of ignore. In particular, if I still have a vim swap file, I want the build to fail. If it doesn't it's too easy to forget to save before building. All the VCS stuff should definitely not be ignored; packages are built from released tarballs, not from vcs checkouts (well, most of the time anyway). But leaving them in will make lintian complain, which is good. :-) Anyway, my point is that what exactly should be ignored is a personal thing, which has little to do with the package that's being worked on. That's a good reason for putting thing in $HOME. And also for not allowing such options to be overridden from a package. Defaults from a package could be acceptable, but I don't see much benefit to that, really. Thanks, Bas -- I encourage people to send me encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. for more information, see http://pcbcn10.phys.rug.nl/e-mail.html
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