Re: DRAFT: Fixing the architecture query options of dpkg.
Hi,
>>"Jules" == Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk> writes:
Jules> My gut instincts tell me that encouraging people to use
Jules> dpkg-buildpackage is *good* since this means we can
Jules> incorporate future ideas like this one directly there.
I still think that the functionality should be pulled out, and
dpkg-buildpackage merely invoke the new binary, just so people are
not straight jacketed into using dpkg-buildpackage if they do not
want to.
I would not want this functionality pulled into
dpkg-buildpackage, and then have dpkg-buildpackage made even more
complex to allow invocation of other targets; I would rather that one
be allowed to modify the rules file so that one may call individual
targets from the rules file directly.
Jules> We should simply make dpkg-buildpackage more flexible (so
Jules> that, for example, in the event you don't want a whole build,
Jules> you can specify a target - if we don't already have this
Jules> functionality).
*Chuckle*. Am I the only on here that remembers
dpkg-buildpackage as a new fangled thing? Traditionally, one did it
all by hand (invoking the targets in ./debian/rules, I mean). I think
if one needs to call a few targets, one may invode ./debian/rules
directly.
manoj
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