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Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage



This one time, at band camp, Raphael Hertzog said:
> On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Note that I'm not asking to mandate the tool. I would like to mandate the
> fact that packages can rely on some environment variables being set to
> some values.
> 
> > I'd be much happier with a Makefile snippet and a conversion period.  I
> > know it's more work and slower to migrate to, but it seems to me to have
> > the advantage of being the most flexible.
> 
> Care to elaborate what kind of flexibility you need in this specific case ?

I don't.  I'm imagining that some of our downstreams may.

Cheers,
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