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Re: RFC: Addition of "Builder: " field to non-maintainer compiled binaries



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Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org> writes:

> I've patched dpkg-buildpackage, dpkg-gencontrol and dpkg-genchanges
> to use the environment variable "DPKGBUILDER" if it's set, and
> generate the appropiate "Builder:" field

A behaviour, such as this, controlled solely by an environmental
variable is IMO broken.  It should be a command line switch like -m.

-- 
James


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