Re: Is the stable/unstable split broken?

[Arthur Korn <arthur@korn.ch>]

Russell Nelson schrieb:
> Arthur Korn writes:
>  > Debian source package installs could be used for much more, like
>  > very specific binary optimisations, builds with different
>  > features/dependencies, debugging builds. (The latter already
>  > exists in policy, though few packages use DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
>  > currently).
> 
> Do you mean build a binary from a modified source?  How is that any
> different from building from a tarball?

apt (dpkg-buildpackage) builds the package for you, with the
libraries that you have installed, and thus not depending on a
unstable libc and such. The result is a perfectly fine debian
binary package, but customized to your needs and linked against
the libraries that you have currently installed.
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is an environment variable, dunno where I
picked it up, it's handy though.

ciao, 2ri
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